1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP 235

Temporary board

of commissioners

named.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That John Muir, John
Newton, James Carroll, Solomon Kirwin, Thomas J.
Pattison, Jacob Wilson and John Griffith be, and they
are hereby created a Board of Commissioners, who
shall exercise all the powers, and perform all the duties
heretofore required to be performed by the levy court
of said county, until the election of county commis-
sioners as hereinafter provided for.

Election of 7 com-
missioners in Oct.

1839.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That an election shall be
held in the several election districts of Dorchester
county, on the first Wednesday in October, one thou-
sand eight hundred and thirty-nine, at the same places
and in the same manner that elections are directed by
law to be held for delegates to the General Assembly,
and that the persons qualified to vote for delegates to
the General Assembly of this State shall, at said elec-

county, possessing the qualifications required in dele-
gates to the General Assembly, to be commissioners
for Dorchester county, and that for the purpose of this
election, and all elections of commissioners hereafter
to be held as provided for by this act, Dorchester
county shall be divided into three commissioners dis-

3 Commissioners'

districts.

tricts, in the following manner, to wit: election dis-
tricts number one, or the Fork district, two, or the
New Market district, three, or the Vienna district, to

No. 1.

compose the first commissioners district; election dis-
tricts number seven, or Cambridge district, eight, or
the neck district, four, or Parson's Creek district, to

No. 2.

compose the second commissioner's district; and elec-
tion districts number five, or Lake's district, and six,

No. 3.

or Hoopers Island district, to constitute the third com-
missioner's districted that two of the said persons to
be voted for as commissioners as aforesaid, shall be

Residence in dis-

tricts.

residents of the first commissioner's district, three shall
be residents of the second commissioner's district, and
two shall be residents of the third commissioner's dis-
trict, and the said seven persons shall be styled com-
missioners of Dorchester county, and the judges of
election for each district, or a majority of them, shall
certify and return in form and manner, similar to their

Election returns.

certificates and return of the election of delegates as
aforesaid, the number of votes given in the said several
election districts for each commissioner; and the re-