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dice, well and truly perform the duties of commissioners of
said town; and said commissioners so elected and qualified shall
meet on the first Monday after the first Tuesday in the
January next succeeding their election at eight o'clock, P.
M., at the place where the meetings of the retiring board
had last been held and shall then and there elect one of
their number president of the Commissioners of Sharptown,
and shall then and there designate the times, not less fre-
quently than once in every month, and the place of their subse-
quent regular meetings, provided, that the said Commissioners
of Sharptown shall have the power to change as often as they
may see fit the times and place of their regular meetings by
resolution duly passed and posted in at least one public place
in the town of Sharptown at least one week prior to the time
of the taking effect of such change; and the said Commissioners
of Sharptown shall, at the times and place so designated, hold
their regular meetings, for the purpose of transacting and con-
ducting the business and affairs of the said town, and, in addi-
tion to such regular meetings, they shall have the power to hold
extraordinary meetings for the purpose of transacting and con-
ducting the business and affairs of the said town as often and
at such times and places as to them may seem necessary and
proper; and it shall be the duty of the president of The Com-
missioners of Sharptown to preside at all meetings of the Com-
sioners, to preserve order within the said town, to enforce the
laws, ordinances and resolutions of the said Commissioners of
Sharptown.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing contained
in this Act shall abridge or affect the tenure of office of the
Commissioners in office at the time of its passage.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on June 1st, 1916.

Approved April 11th, 1916.

CHAPTER 492.
(Vetoed. )

CHAPTER 493.

AN ACT to remove Berryman Avenue from the jurisdiction of
the incorporated town of Capitol Heights, Prince George's
County, and denominate the same as a county road.