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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 201.

Passed March
24, 1865.

AN ACT to repeal sections one hundred and one,
one hundred and four and one hundred and
seven, of Article twenty of the Code of Public
Local Laws relating to Talbot County, defining
the duties of the Commissioners of Oxford, in
said county, and to re-enact the said sections
with amendments.

Sections
amended and
re-enacted.

SECTION 1. B e it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That sections one hundred and
one, one hundred and four, and one hundred and
seven of Article twenty, of the Code of Public
Local Laws relating to Talbot county, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

To take oath.

101. Every Commissioner hereafter elected for
the town of Oxford shall, before he shall proceed
to execute his office, take an oath before one of the
Commissioners then in office, or before some Jus-
tice of the Peace for Talbot county, that he will
diligently and faithfully according to the best of
his judgment, perform, the duties of Commissioner
of said town, without favor, partiality or preju-
dice, and a certificate of such qualification shall
be filed and recorded among their proceedings.

May choose
a President.

104. The said Commissioners or a majority of
them shall have power to meet and adjourn from
time to time as they shall think proper, and shall
at their first meeting after an election for a board
of Commissioners choose from their own body a
President who shall preside at all meetings of the
Commissioners, vote on all questions before them,
and remain in office until superseded by the
appointment of a new President; after a new elec-
tion of Commissioners they may also choose from
their own body annually, a Treasurer, and require
him to give bond in such penalty as they may pre-
scribe, they may also appoint from their own
number (or other persons) three Judges of elec-
tion and a Clerk, and administer to them neces-
sary oaths.

Powers.

107. They may open, close, grade and level
streets and alleys, and remove all nuisances and