1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 321.

to the clerks of Dorchester and Caroline counties respec-
tively, within sixty days after said election, to be by
said clerks safely kept in their offices, and it is hereby
provided, that if a tie or no decision by ballot, in the
final vote for commissioners, in consequence of more
than five persons being voted for, or disqualification, said
judge shall decide who are elected, in the same manner
as the existing laws now are in respect to delegates to
the General Assembly aforesaid, and shall order a new
election, at such time and place as he may decide, to fill
the vacancy or vacancies that occur, giving sufficient
notice to said voters.

Future elec-
tions.

SEC. 4. 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 corporation, the same
not being inconsistent with the provisions of this act, and
after the election to be held in July, eighteen hundred
and fifty-one, the commissioners in office may, in their
discretion, class the five commissioners to be elected at
the next regular annual election, that is, instead of the
terms of each member expiring at the same time, the
legal voters may elect, to lie decided by the commission-
ers when they meet after their election, by lot or other-
wise, as the bye-laws of the former commissioners may
propose, their respective terms, one, two, three, four and
five years, one of said commissioners to vacate his office
each year, in succession, and in the recess of the annual
elections, if any one or more of said commissioners shall
decline serving, die, resign, remove, or be disqualified
to serve in any manner, the remaining commissioners,
or a majority of them, may appoint others to fill said va-
cancies, or if no decision by them, they shall order a
new election, at such time and place as they deem ex-
pedient, giving sufficient notice of such election, to fill
said vacancies until the regular election.

To appoint
president.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said commis-
sioners elected, or a majority of them, according to the
provisions of this act, shall at the first meetings after said
election, respectively choose some one of the said com-
missioners president of the board, whose duly it shall be
to preside at the meetings of the said commissioners,
and preserve order, to carry into full effect the provisions
of this act, and give such directions as may be deemed
necessary.

Vacancies—
how supplies.

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, up-
on the business of said village, and not less than once
in every three months, and if, during the years for