1849

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 271.

CHAPTER 271.

Passed March
1, 1850.

An act to Incorporate Chesapeake City, in Cecil
County.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
that it would greatly contribute to the advantage and
improvement of Chesapeake City and Bohemia Village,
in Cecil county, if the same, should be placed under
the care and regulation of certain commissioners to be
elected by the citizens thereof, and vested with sufficient
powers to forward and effect the purposes intended —
Therefore,

Incorporated,

&c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the citizens of Chesapeake City
and Bohemia Village, in Cecil county, shall be and
they are hereby constituted and made a body corporate
by the name of the president and commissioners of the
town of Chesapeake City, and as such shall have suc-
cession, and by their corporate name may sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, grant, receive, and do
all other acts as natural persons, and may purchase and
hold real, personal, and mixed properly, or dispose of
the same for the benefit of the said town, and may have
and use a common seal, which may be broken or al-
tered at pleasure.

Commissioner
to be elected.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all free white male
citizens of the town of Chesapeake City aforesaid,
above twenty-one years of age, who shall have
bona fide resided in said town for and during the space
"of six months, and twelve months in the State, next
preceding the election, shall, on the first Monday in
May next, at the house now occupied as a tavern by
John J. R. Poole, and on the first Monday in May in each
and every year hereafter, at such house as shall here-
after be designated by the municipality, be authorised
to elect five judicious and discreet persons commissioners
for the said town, and who shall have resided within
the limits of the said town for at least twelve months
next preceding the election.

First election,
how conducted.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That any justice of the
peace for the county aforesaid, shall in the first instance,
be the judge of said election, who shall open the polls at
one o'clock in the evening, and close the same at seven
o'clock in the evening, and shall return his certificate of
the persons elected to the said commissioners, on the day
first appointed for their meeting, and the same shall be
filed and recorded among their proceedings.