WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

CHAPTER 179.

An act to incorporate the Town of Frostburg, in Allegany
County.

CHAP. 179.

Passed Feb. 29,
1840.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by Hue, General Assembly of
Maryland, That the citizens of the Town of Frostburg,
in Allegany county, shall be and they are hereby consti-
tuted and made a body corporate, by the name of the
Commissioners of Frostburg, with all the privileges of a
body corporate, and to have a common seal, and perpetu-
al succession.

Incorporated.

Name and style.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the free male white
citizens of Frostburg aforesaid, of the age of twenty-one
years and upwards, and have resided in the said place for
and during the space of six months next preceding the
election, may on the first Monday in May next, at the
house occupied now as a tavern by George S. Evans, and
on the first Monday in June, in each and every year here-
after, at such house as shall hereafter be designated as the
Town Hall, by the municipality, be authorised to elect five
commissioners for the said town, who shall have lesided
within the limits of the same, six months next preceding
the election.

To elect five

commissioers.

SEC. 3. And be if enacted, That a justice of the peace,
for the time being, residing in the said town, shall appoint
by writing, under his hand and seal, one judge to hold
the first election, who shall keep the polls open from nine
o'clock in the morning, until two in the evening, and shall
conduct the said election in the same manner in which
the judges of elections are now by law directed to con-
duct an election for delegates to the General Assembly,
as far as may be consistent with the provisions of this
act; and the said judge shall make return, under his hand
and seal, of the persons elected, to the clerk of Allegany
county, to be by him kept.

Judge of elec-

tion to be ap-
pointed.

His duties.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all future elections
shall be held and conducted as shall be from time to time
directed by the laws of the corporation, the same not be-
ing inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

Election— how
conducted.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said commission-
ers elected according to the provisions of this act, shall
on the first meeting after said election, choose some one
of the said commissioners president of the board, whose
duty it shall be to preside at the meetings of the said

To elect a pre-

sident.