SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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That from and after the passage of this act, the town commission-
ers of Elkton shall be, and are hereby incorporated and made a
body politic, by the style and name of the President and Commis-
sioners of the Town of Elkton; and by the same style and name
shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable of sueing and
being sued, impleading and being impleaded in any court of law or
equity of this state, and may have and use a common seal, which
they may break or alter at their pleasure.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

2. And be it enacted, That the present president and com-
missioners shall remain in office until the first Monday of May
next, at which time there shall be tin election for seven commission-
ers; and until said election they shall and may exercise all the au-
thority given by this act.

Elections.

3. And be it enacted, That all free white male citizens of
Cecil county, above twenty-one years of age, who shall own proper-
ty assessed in the limits of the town, and shall have paid said
assessment; and all free white male citizens above twenty-one years
of age, who shall have bona fide resided in said village two years
next preceding the election at which they shall offer to vote, shall
be entitled to vote for commissioners of said town.

Who shall
vote.

4. And be it enacted, That the commissioners shall, on the
said first Monday of May next, and on the same day annually
thereafter, appoint one person to act as judge of said election, who
shall open the polls at three o'clock P.M. and close the same at six
o'clock P. M; and the persons who shall have the majority of votes
shall be declared elected for the ensuing year.

Judge or elec-
tion.

5. And be it enacted, That the commissioners so elected
shall have power and authority to meet and adjourn from time to
time as they shall see fit, and shall at their first meeting which shall
be within one month after their election, choose from their own bo-
dy, a president who shall preside at all meetings of the commission-
ers, vote on all questions before them, and remain in office until
superceded by the appointment of anew president after a new elec-
tion of commissioners as aforesaid.

Meetings—
President.

6. And be it enacted, That said president and commission-
ers shall have power and authority to pass ordinances, regulating
the market, the inspection, measurement, weights, &c. of all provi-
sion, grain, wood, &c. sold in said town; to suppress all disorderly
meetings of negroes or others; to prevent tiring cannon, guns, squibs,
or any kind of fire-works or fire-arms in said town.; to suppress and
abate all nuisances; to prevent swine and geese, &c. from going at
large, and to impose fines not exceeding ten dollars for any one of-
fence on all persons violating said ordinances.

Ordinances.

7. And be it enacted, That the said president and commis-
sioners shall have full power and authority to levy and collect tax-
es in said town, not exceeding in any one year forty cents in the
hundred dollars on the assessable property of said town. And for
the purpose of making said levy, they shall once in every five years
or oftener, if they think proper, appoint an assessor, who shall, tinder
oath, value, appraise and assess the property in said town in the
same manner and with like authority as county assessors proceed

Taxes.

to assess in the county; Provided always, That in assessing any of
the lands within the limits of said town, which may be occupied and
used as farms, or may be a part or parts of farms, that then such

Proviso.