THOMAS KING CARROLL,
ESQ. GOVERNOR.
1829.
resident of the fifth election district; two persons,
[a] residents
of the sixth election district; one person, a resident of the
seventh election district; one person, a resident of the eighth
election district; and one person, a resident of the ninth election
district, having the same qualifications as are or shall be
required for delegates as aforesaid, to be Commissioners for
Allegany county; and the judges of elections for each several
election [districts] in said county, or a majority of them, shall
certify, under their hands, and return, in a form and manner
similar to their certificates and return of the election of delegates
as aforesaid, the number of votes given in their said respective
districts, for a commissioner or commissioners as
aforesaid; and the judges of election, from the several election
districts in said county, when met at the court house of
said county, to ascertain and certify the election of delegates
as aforesaid, shall ascertain the number of votes given as
aforesaid, for commissioners as aforesaid, in the said election
districts respectively, and by a certificate to be filed in the
office of the clerk of the county court of said county, and
which shall be by the said clerk recorded, certify in a form
similar to the certificate of the election of delegates, that the
ten persons by name, residents respectively of the election districts
aforesaid in said county, who they shall ascertain to have
received the greatest number of legal votes in the districts as
aforesaid, in which they shall severally reside, are duly elected
commissioners for Allegany county, to serve for the period of
two years from the date of their said election; and that the
persons elected commissioners as aforesaid, shall, out of their
own body, elect their president; and if any commissioner or
commissioners, so elected, shall die, resign, refuse or neglect,
for twenty days after the notification of his election, to qualify
as commissioner under this act, or shall remove from said
county at any time within the period for which he shall have
been elected, the governor and council for the time being,
shall appoint a person qualified, as hereinbefore directed, in
case of an original election, to fill the vacancy or vacancies
thus occasioned, until the next annual election for delegates to
the General Assembly, when a person or persons shall be
elected in the district where such commissioner or commissioners,
so dying, resigning, or refusing, or neglecting to qualify,
or removing from the county as aforesaid, was or were elected,
in like manner as at first, with like qualifications, as such
commissioner or commissioners, to serve for the residue of
his or their said terms.
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CHAP. 25.
Vacancies—president.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted,
That every commissioner elected
or appointed as aforesaid, shall, before he enters on the duties
of his office, take and subscribe, before some judge or justice
of the peace, an oath or affirmation, that he will faithfully, diligently,
and impartially exercise the powers, and perform the
duties of commissioner for Allegany county, as authorised and
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Oath.
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