1840.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 21.

shall be and they are hereby constituted and made a bo-
dy corporate, by the name of the commissioners of Frost-
burg, with all the privileges of a body corporate, and to
have a common seal, and perpetual succession.

Election of com-
missioners.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every male white citizen
of the age of twenty-one and upwards, residents in Frost-
burg aforesaid, shall on the first Monday in June next, at
the house now occupied by N. Parker, be authorised to
vote for the election, as commissioners for the said town,
of five citizens, who shall have resided within the limits of
the same six months next preceding the election.

Judge of elec-
tion.

His duties.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That a justice of the peace for
the time being, residing in said town, shall appoint by writ-
ing under his hand and seal, one judge to hold the first elec-
tion, who shall keep the polls open from nine o'clock 1n
the morning until two in the evening, and shall conduct the
said election in the same manner in which the judges of
elections are now by law directed to conduct an election
for delegates to the general assembly, as far as may be con-
sistent with the provisions of this act; and the said judge
shall make return, under his hand and seal, of the persons
elected to the clerk of Allegany county, to be by him kept.

Term of office
New election

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the commissioners so
elected shall hold their office for the term of one year; and
that, on the first Monday in June in each succeeding year,
a new election shall take place, at such place as may be
determined upon by the then existing corporation, and con-
ducted agreeably to the provisions of this act; the presi-
dent of the commissioners of the preceding year to act as
judge of such election.

Commissioners
to elect a pre-
sident.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners
elected according to the provisions of this act, shall on the
first meeting after said election, choose some one of the
said commissioners president of the board, whose duty it
shall be to preside at the meetings of the said commission-
ers 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.

Quarterly meet-
ings.

If vacancies oc-
cur

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the commissioners afore-
said, or a majority of them, shall meet together from time
to time as often as occasion may require, upon the business
of said town, and not less than once in every three months;
and if during the year for which they may he 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 being given by the com-