PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

CHAPTER 205.

CHAP. 205.

An act to alter and amend an act entitled, an act for
the regulation of the Village of Piscataway.

Passed
Feb. 28, 1850.

WHEREAS, The citizens of the village of Piscataway
have, for several years, neglected to elect commissioners
of said village, as required by the original act — There-
fore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the free white male citizens of the
village of Piscataway, in Prince George's county, quali-
fied to vote for members of the Legislature, be and they
are hereby authorised and required to meet in said village
on the first Monday of May, eighteen hundred and fifty,
and annually thereafter, on the same day, to elect three
of the said citizens commissioners of said village, to
serve until the next annual election, who shall, before
they proceed to act, take an oath before some justice of
the peace of the county, to discharge their duties or com-
missions according to the best of their skill and judg-
ment, without, favor, affection or partiality to any, a
copy of which oath shall be entered in a book herein-
after directed to be kept by said commissioners, with the
certificate of the justice administering the same.

Commissioners
to be elected.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That James H. Griffin, F
John W. Ward, and Joseph B. Edelen, or any two of
them, shall be authorised to hold the first election, after
first giving ten days notice of the time and place of hold-
ing the same, by advertisement set up at the most public
places in said village, and shall keep the polls open from
ten o'clock in the morning, until three o'clock in the
evening, and shall conduct the said election in the man-
ner in which elections for members to the Legislature
are conducted, so far as the same may be consistent with
the provisions of this act.

First election.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all future elections,
shall be held and conducted, as shall, from time to time,
be directed by the bye-laws of the commissioners, the
same being not inconsistent with the provisions of this
act, and if, during the year for which the said commis-
sioners shall have been elected, they or any of them
shall die, resign, refuse to serve, or remove from said
village, an election to fill said vacancy or vacancies, shall
be held, after giving at least five days notice, by adver-
tisement set up at the most public places in said village,
at which all persons qualified as specified in the first
section of this act shall vote.

Vacancies—
how filled.