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CHAP. 109,
Of six commission-
ers.
Elections thereaf-
ter.
Three commission-
ers' districts.
No. 1.
No. 2.
No. 3.
Style.
Return of votes.
Election returns.
To be recorded.
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dred 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 Gene-
ral Assembly of this State, shall at the said election
in March, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, vote for
six persons, citizens of Somerset county, possessing
the qualifications required in delegates to the General
Assembly, to be commissioners for Somerset county,
and that, for the purpose of this election, and in all
elections of commissioners hereafter to be held as pro-
vided form this act, Somerset county shall be divided
into three commissioners' districts, in the following
manner, to wit: Election districts number one, two.
three, and nine, to compose the first commissioners'
district; election districts number four, five, seven,
eight, and ten, to compose the second commissioners
district; and election district number six to constitute
the third commissioners' district, and that two of the
said persons to be voted for as commissioners as afore-
said, shall be. residents of the first commissioners' dis-
ers' district, and two shall be residents of the third
commissioners' district, and the said six persons shall
be styled Commissioners for Somerset County, and the
judges of elections for each district, or a majority of
them, shall certify and return, in form and manner
similar to their certificates and return of the election
of delegates as aforesaid, the number of votes given in
the said several election districts for each commis-
sioner; and the returning judges of election shall meet,
on the Friday next succeeding the said election in
March, at the court house in Princess Ann, in the said
county, and when so met, they shall ascertain and
certify the number of votes given as aforesaid for com-
missioners, the said certificate shall be made out and
filed by the said returning judges of election, in form
similar to the certificates of the election of delegates,
to be delivered to the clerk of the county court, whose
duty it shall be to record the same, and the two per-
sons, resident as aforesaid in the first commissioners'
district, and the two resident in the second commis-
sioners' district, and the two resident in the third com-
missioners' district, who shall be ascertained by the
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