1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 67.

ery three years thereafter, vote for one person pos-

sessing the qualifications hereafter required, to be

commissioner of the tax for St. Mary's county, from
said district.

Qualifications for

Commissioners.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That in addition to the
qualification now requisite to be eligible to a seat in
the House of Delegates of Maryland, the person voted

for as commissioner, shall have residence for at least

one year immediately proceeding the election in the
district in which said election is held.

Conducting of elec-

tions.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the judges of elec-
tion for each election district in said county, or a ma-

Returns thereof.

jority of them, shall certify and return in a form and

manner similar to the certificates and returns of the
election of Delegates aforesaid, the number of votes

given in their said respective districts, for a commis-

sioner aforesaid; and having ascertained the person for
whom the highest number of legal votes was given,
they also shall certify and return to the clerk of St.
Mary's county court, the person whom they shall so
ascertain to have received the highest number of le-
gal votes to be duly elected commissioner for St. Ma-
ry's county, from said district, to serve for three
years, from the date of his election, which certificate
shall be deposited within three days after the election,
with the clerk of St. Mary's county, by said judges

To be recorded.

respectively, and which shall be by said clerk, record-

ed in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, and

Elect a President.

the persons elected as commissioners aforesaid, shall

out of their body elect their President, and if any
commissioner or commissioners so elected, shall die.

Case of vacancy.

resign, refuse, or neglect for twenty (lays after the

shall remove from the said county at any time within
the period for which lie shall have been elected, the
remaining commissioners who have properly qualified,
or a majority of them, shall appoint a person qualified,
as is hereinbefore provided, in case of an original elec-
tion, to fill his place until the next annual election for
delegates to the General Assembly, when a person
shall be elected in the manner hereinbefore described,

in the district where such commissioner or commission-

ers so dying, resigning, refusing, neglecting to quali-
fy, or removing from the county as aforesaid, was