1840.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 110.

Passed Feb. 4,
1841.

CHAPTER 110.

A further supplement to an act, entitled an act to incor-
porate Fredericktown, in Frederick County, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and sixteen, chapter
seventy-four.

Voters shall ap-
prove or disap-
prove of the
Board of Al-
dermen.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That at the next election for mayor, aldermen
and common council, for the town of Frederick, in Frede-
rick county, each voter may endorse upon his ballot, in
print or writing: for a board of aldermen, or against a
Board of aldermen; and if upon counting the ballots, a ma-
jority of the ballots thus endorsed shall be against a board
of aldermen, then and from that time, the board of alder-
men shall be abolished; but if a majority of the ballots thus
endorsed shall be for a board of aldermen, this act shall
have no force or effect; and the persons elected as members
of the board of aldermen, shall proceed to act as such, in
the same manner as if this act had never been passed.

Name changed

in the event of
the board being
abolished.

Authority con-
tinued.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if at the said election
hereinbefore mentioned, of mayor, aldermen and common
council, the said board of aldermen shall be abolished as
aforesaid, the name of the body politic and incorporate of
said town shall, from that time, be the mayor and com-
mon council of Frederick; and the mayor and common
council of Frederick, as such, shall have and exercise all
the powers which were conferred on the major, aldermen
and common council of Frederick, by the original act of
incorporation, and supplements thereto; and the common
council shall have and exercise all the powers and authori-
ty now vested in the aldermen and common council, by the
several acts to which this is a further supplement.

Ordinances
continued in
force.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all ordinances and
by-laws of the aldermen and common council of Frede-
rick, shall continue in force until altered or repealed by the
common council.

Proceedings
&c. lawful.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all proceedings at law
or in equity, which may be pending at the passage of this
act, and all acts and doings of the mayor, aldermen and
common council of Frederick, shall continue and be effec-
tual as if done by the mayor and common council, or by
the common council, as the case may be, so far as they do
not conflict with the abolition of the board of aldermen
under this act; ami the change of the corporate name here-
by made, shall not be used or construed to impair or inva-