A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,
preceding the first Monday in May next, may on
that day, at the usual place of holding elections in
the said town, and on the first Monday in June in
each and every year thereafter, at such house as
shall hereafter be designated by the municipality,
be authorized to elect five Commissioners for said
town, who shall have resided within the limits of
the same, six months next preceding the election.

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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That a Justice of the
Peace, for the time being, residing in the said
town, shall appoint, by writing under his hand
and seal, three Judges to hold the first election,
who shall keep the polls open from nine o'clock
in the morning until five in the afternoon, and
shall conduct the said election in the same man-
ner in which the Judges of election are now di-
rected to conduct an election for Delegates to the
General Assembly, as far as may be consistent
with the provisions pf this act; and the said
Judges shall make return, under their hands and
seals, of the persons elected, to the Clerk of Alle-
gany county, to be kept by him.

Polls to be
kept open.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That all future elec-
tions shall be held and conducted as shall be from
time to time directed by the laws of the corpora-
tion, the same not being inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act.

Future elec-
tions.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the said Com-
missioners elected according to the provisions of
this act, shall, on the first meeting after said elec-
tion, chose some one of the said Commissioners
President of the Board, whose duty it shall be to
preside at the meetings of the said Commissioners,
and preserve order and give such directions as may
be deemed necessary by the said Commissioners to
carry into effect the provisions of this act.

Duty of Pres-
ident.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the Commis-
sioners aforesaid, or a majority of them, may meet
together, from time to time, as often as occasion
may require, upon the business of said town, and
not less than once in three months; and if during
the year for which they may be elected, any of the
Commissioners should die, resign, remove from
said town, or be otherwise disqualified, an election
to fill the vacancy, on ten days' notice thereof be-
ing given by the Commissioners, shall be held, at

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Vacancies to
be filled.