THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 187

County, and providing generally for the powers and duties
of said town and the officials thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That 11 new sections be and they are hereby added to
Article 10 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930
Edition), title "Dorchester County", said new sections to be
known as Section 304A-304K, inclusive, to follow immediately
after Section 304 of said Article and to be under the new sub-
title "Galestown", and to read as follows:

GALESTOWN

804A. The citizens of the Town of Galestown, in Dorchester
County, shall be and they are hereby constituted and made a
body corporate, by the name of the Commissioners of Gales-
town, with all the privileges of a body corporate, and having a
common seal and perpetual succession.

304B. The citizens of Galestown, of the age of twenty-one
years and upwards, being citizens of the United States, who
have resided in the said village for or during the space of six
months next preceding the first Monday in June, may, on that
day, at the usual place of holding elections in said village
and on the first Monday in June in every second year there-
after, be authorized to elect three Commissioners for said town,
for the term of two years, who shall have resided within the
limits of the same for one year next preceding the election,
and who are assessed on the tax books of Dorchester County
and owning Three Hundred Dollars ($300. 00) worth of prop-
erty within the corporate limits of said Town of Galestown.
Said Commissioners of Galestown shall receive no pay for their
services as such, and they shall continue to reside in said
town during their term of office; provided, however, that there
shall be no election of Commissioners of Galestown in the
month of June, 1951, but that Walter J. Brady, William W.
Collison and Rose Bialk shall be and constitute the Commis-
sioners of Galestown, from and after the first Monday in June,
1951, subject to the provisions of this sub-title.

304C. The Commissioners of Galestown shall appoint by
writing under their hands and seals, three judges to hold the
first election on the first Monday in June, 1953, who shall keep
the polls open from 2 o'clock P. M. until 7 o'clock P. M. and
shall conduct the said election in the same manner in which
judges of elections are now directed to conduct an election
for Delegates to the General Assembly as far as may be con-
sistent with the provisions of this sub-title, and the said judges
shall make returns, under their hands and seals, of the persons