PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1577

shall not be given as hereinbefore required, or if the Judges of
Election shall not be appointed or shall refuse to act, five or
more voters of said town may call the election of said officers
by notices set up in at least four of the most public places
in said town, not less than one week previous to said election,
therein naming the time and place to hold such election and
naming three Judges thereof who or any two of whom may
hold such election and have the same powers in respect thereto
as the Judges appointed by the Commissioners.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if at any election
for Commissioners there shall be a tie vote between any candi-
dates for the same office, a new election shall be held, or if
any person elected to the office of Commissioner shall refuse to
act, die, resign, be disqualified or remove beyond the corporate
limits of said town, the remaining Commissioners shall elect a
successor to serve until the next election, at which said time
a Commissioner shall be elected to fill the unexpired term caused
by said vacancy. Said Commissioner elected as aforesaid shall
qualify as the other members.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all officers of said
town, before they enter upon the duties of their respective
offices shall make oath before a Justice of the Peace for Caroline
County or any Notary Public, that they will perform the duties
of their respective offices without favor, partiality or prejudice;
and a certificate of such qualification shall be delivered by said
Justice of the Peace or Notary Public to the Commissioners, to
be filed and recorded among their proceedings, and a failure
to take such oath and to qualify on or before the second Monday
in May, after their election shall be deemed a refusal on the part
of the party failing to qualify as aforesaid to accept the office
to which he has been elected or appointed.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said Commis-
sioners shall at their first meeting after their election or at such
other time as they shall deem proper elect a President of their
Board and appoint a Secretary and Treasurer, who may be the
same person, and they may appoint one or more assessors of
taxes, bailiff or bailiffs not exceeding three, who within the limits
of said town and beyond them within one-half mile thereof,
shall have all the police powers of Constables of the State of
Maryland and it shall be their duty to enforce the by-laws and
ordinances of the town and the laws of the State of Maryland,
relating to crimes and misdemeanors committed within it; special