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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1823

venteen, entitled, an act to incorporate the Hibernian Society of Bal-
timore, be, and are hereby extended to the purchase, and leasing for
terms of years, of one or more lots of ground, and the erection of a
suitable building or buildings for a free school in the city of Balti-
more, for the education of poor children of every religious denomina-
tion, under the direction of said society, and under such regulations
as said society by their bye-laws may direct, and that said society be
and are hereby capable of receiving donations, gifts, grants, devises
and bequests, or other conveyances of money, goods, chatties, effects,
lands, tenements and estates, real, personal and mixed, and the same
to hold, use, sell or otherwise dispose of and convey, and generally
to do all such acts, matters or things, as are, or shall be necessary for
the purpose of erecting said building or buildings, and applying the
funds aforesaid, to the education of such poor children, as may be
hereafter admitted by the said society, into the said school,

Passed Feb.
10, 1823.
Incorpora-
tion.

CHAPTER 195.
An act to incorporate the town of Williamsport in Washington county.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the citizens of the town of Williamsport, in Washington county, shall
be, and they are hereby constituted and made a body corporate by
the name of the Burgess and Commissioners of Williamsport, with
all the privileges of a body corporate, and to have a common seal and
perpetual succession.

Elections.

2. And be it enacted, That the free white male citizens of Williams-
port aforesaid, of the age of twenty-one years, and upwards, and hav-
ing resided in the said town for and during the space of twelve months
next preceding the election, shall, on the first Monday in April next,
at the house now occupied as a tavern by Charles Heseltine, and on
the first Monday in March in each and every year hereafter, at such
house as shall hereafter be designated as the Town Hall, by the mu-
nicipality, be authorised to elect a Burgess, an Assistant Burgess, and
five Commissioners for the said town, who shall have resided within
the limits of the said town twelve months next preceding the election,
and who shall each be the proprietor of a house and lot, within the
limits of the said town.

Judges of e-
lections, &c.

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, one judge to hold the first election, who shall keep the poles
open from nine o'clock in the morning until two in the evening, and
shall conduct the said election in the manner in which the judges of
election are now by law directed to conduct an election for delegates
to the general assembly, as far as may be consistent with the provi-
sions 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 safely kept.

Future elec-
tions.

4. And be it enacted, That all future elections shall be held and
conducted as shall be from time to time directed by the bye-laws of
the corporation, the same not being inconsistent with the provisions of
this act.

Presiding
officers.

5. And be it enacted, That the Assistant Burgess aforesaid at all
meetings of the municipality shall in the absence of the Burgess pre-
side, and when the Burgess is present shall have the same power and
authority as one of the commissioners.