WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

turning judges shall ascertain and certify the number
of votes given as aforesaid for commissioners, the said

turning judges of election, in form similar to the cer-
tificates of the election of delegates, to be delivered to
the clerk of the county court, whose duty it shall he to
record the same, and the two persons resident as afore-
said, the first commissioner's district, and the three
residents in the second commissioner's district, and the
two resident in the third commissioner's district, who
shall be ascertained by the said returning judges to
have received the largest number of votes in the whole
county at the said election, shall be declared to be

duly elected commissioners for Dorchester county; and

the said commissioners, elected as aforesaid, shall
have, use and exercise all the powers and authority
vested heretofore in the levy court of said county, and
the said commissioners, at their first meeting after their

CHAP. 235.

election and qualification, shall be divided into three
classes, and the two persons elected commissioners
from the first commissioner's district shall constitute

Classification.

the first class, and shall continue in office until the an-
nual election in October, eighteen hundred and forty,
and until the election and qualification of their succes-

1st class.

sors; the three persons elected commissioners from the
second commissioner's district, shall constitute the se-
cond class, and shall continue in office until the annual
election in October, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and
until the election and qualification of their successors;

2d class.

and the two persons elected commissioners from the
third commissioner's district shall constitute the third

class, and shall continue in office until the annual elec-

tion in October, eighteen hundred and forty-two, and
until the election and qualification of their successors.

3d class.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That at the annual elec-
tion in October, eighteen hundred and forty, two com-
missioners, possessing the qualifications required in
the third section of this act, and residents of the first
commissioner's district, shall be elected by the qualified
voters of Dorchester county, in the same manner as
the delegates to the General Assembly are by law di-
rected to be elected; and shall be certified and return-
ed, and the certificate and returns shall be recorded,
as required in the third section of this art, to supply

Election 1840.