THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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porate by the name of the Commissioners of
Westernport, with all the privileges of a body
corporate, and to have a common seal and per-
petual succession.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the free male
white citizens of Westernport aforesaid, of the age
of twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens
of the United States who have resided in the said
town for and during the space of six months next
preceding the first Monday in May next, may on
that day, at the usual place of holding elections
in said town, and on the first Monday in June in
each and every year thereafter, at such house as
shall hereafter be designated by the municipality,
be authorised to elect five commissioners for said
town, who shall have resided within the limits of
the same six months next preceding the election.

Commission-
ers to be elect-
ed.

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, three judges to hold the first election,
who shall keep the polls open from nine o'clock
in the morning until five in the afternoon, and
shall conduct the said election in the same man-
ner in which the judges of election are now direct-
ed 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
judges shall make return under their hands and
seals, of the persons elected, to the Clerk of Alle-
gany county, to be kept by him.

First election.

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 cor-
poration, the same not being inconsistent with the
provisions of this act.

Future elec-
tions.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said com-
missioners elected according to the provisions of
this act, shall, on the first meeting after said elec-
tion, 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 commission-
ers to carry into full effect the provisions of this
act.

Shall choose a
President.