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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1812.

permit every person to vote at such election, who shall
be qualified to vote for a commissioner of the said
town, according to the directions of this act; and that
he will not suffer any person to vote at such election
who shall not, in his judgment, be qualified to vote as
aforesaid.

Vacancies occa-
sioned by death
or otherwise,
shall be suppli-
ed by a new
election.

4. AND BE IT EN ACTED, That if any vacan-
cy shall happen in the office of one or more of the com-
missioners, by death, resignation, removal or other-
wise, it shall be lawful for the remaining commission-
ers, and they are hereby required to cause an election to
be made at such place as they shall appoint in the said
town, by the inhabitants thereof, and others qualified
to vote as aforesaid, of one or more judicious and dis-
creet persons, residents and qualified as aforesaid, to
supply such vacancy during the remainder of the
term; and the time of holding such intervening elec-
tion, shall be previously notified, for the space often
days preceding the election.

Commissioners
shall take
an oath be-
fore a justice
of the peace.

5. AND BE IT EM ACTED, That every commis-
sioner to be appointed in pursuance of this act, be-
fore he shall proceed to execute his office, shall take an
oath or affirmation before some justice of the peace?
that he will diligently and faithfully, according to the
best of his judgment, perform the duties of a commis-
sioner of the said town, according to the directions of
this act, without favor, partiality or prejudice; and a
certificate of such qualification shall be made and re-
turned by such justice of the peace, to the said commis-
sioners, to be filed and recorded among their pro-
ceedings.

Stated days of
meeting.

6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commis-
sioners, or the major part of them, shall meet togeth-
er at such public place within the limits of the said
town as shall be previously notified, on the first Mon-
day in April in the year aforesaid, and statedly on the
first Monday in every third month thereafter, and as
much oftener by adjournment as they shall judge to be
necessary; and when so assembled, the said commis-
sioners, or the major part of them, shall proceed to
execute the several powers and authorities vested in
them by this act, from time to time, as occasion shall
require.

Commissioners
required to
meet and trans-
act such busi-
ness as they or

7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said com-
missioners shall be, and they are hereby authorised,
empowered and required to meet as aforesaid, and
from time to time to recommend such plans and regu-