E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

such repeal, said forfeiture to be recovered by an action
or actions of debt, in the name of the State against the
party or parties.

CHAPTER 182.

CHAP 182.

AN ACT to Incorporate the Town of Sharpsburgh
and Miller's Addition to Sharpsburgh.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the citizens of the town of Sharps-
burgh and Miller's addition to Sharpsburgh, in Washing-
ton county, shall be, and they are hereby constituted
and made a body corporate, by the name of the burgess
and commissioners of Sharpsburg, with all the privi-
leges of a body corporate, and to have a common seal
and perpetual succession.

Passed May
24, 1852.

Incorporated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the free white male
citizens of Sharpsburgh and of Miller's addition to
Sharpsburgh aforesaid, of the age of twenty-one years
and upwards, and having resided in the said town for
and dining the space of six months next preceding the
election, shall, on the first Wednesday in July next,
be authorised to elect a burgess and assistant burgess
and five commissioners for the said town, who shall
have resided within the limits of said town six months
next preceding the election.

Authority to
elect a bur-
gess, assistant
burgess and
five commis-
sioners.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That a justice of the
peace for the time being, residing in said town, shall ap-
point 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 four o'clock in
the evening, and shall conduct the said election in the
manner in which judges of elections are now directed
by law to conduct an election for Delegates to the Ge-
neral 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 Washington county, to be by him safe
kept.

Justice of
peace to ap-
point one
judge to hold
first election.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said justice of
the peace shall have power to fix upon the place of
holding the first election, and that all future elections
shall be held and conducted as shall, from time to time,
be directed by the by-laws of the corporation, the same
not being inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

Justice to fix
upon place of
holding first
election.