PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

next, at the usual place of holding elections in said
town, and on the first Monday in June, in each and
every year hereafter, at such house as shall hereafter
be designated as the Town Hall, by the municipality,
be authorised to elect five commissioners for said town,
who shall have resided within the limits of the same
six mouths next preceding the election, and the said
commissioners shall hold real estate.

CHAP. 219.

SEC. 3. And be it 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 conduct 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.

First election,
how conducted.

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 being inconsistent with the provisions of this
act.

Future elec-
tions.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said commis-
sioners 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 commissioners, and preserve order, and
give such directions as may be deemed necessary by
the said commissioners, to carry into full effect the
provisions of this act.

Duty of presi-
dent.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
aforesaid, or a majority of them, may meet together,
from time to time, as often as occasion may require,
upon the business of said town, and not less than
once in every three months, and if during the year
for which they may be elected, any of the commis-
sioners should die, resign, remove from said town, or
be otherwise disqualified, an election to fill the va-
cancy on ten days notice thereof being given by the
commissioners shall be held, at which all persons
qualified, as is specified in the second section of this
act, shall be entitled to vote.

Duties of com-
missioners.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the said commission-
ers, or a majority of them, shall have power to appoint

To appoint a
clerk.