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CHAP. 127.
Such fine to be
applied agreeably
to provisions of
this act.
Swine running at
large without the
knowledge of
owner not to be
impounded, &c.
Act repealed.
When to take ef-
fect.
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7. And be it enacted, That any justice or the peace laying any
fine as aforesaid, may receive and apply the same agreeably to the
provisions of this act.
8. And be it enacted, That it shall not be the duty of any consta-
ble to seize and impound any swine as aforesaid, if it shall appear
that such swine are going at large without the knowledge and con-
sent of the owner or owners, but whenever such swine has been
' running at large in said town for the space of twenty-four hours,
it shall be considered as being by this consent of the owner or own-
ers.
9. And be it enacted, That an act, entitled, An act to prevent
swine from going at large in the town of Salisbury, in Somerset
and Worcester counties, passed at November session eighteen hun-
dred and one, or so much thereof as is repugnant to the provisions
of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
10. And be it enacted, That this act shall not take effect before
the first day of June next.
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Passed Feb. 5, 1819
Three adjoining
towns to be for
ever hereafter
known by the
name of Westmis-
ster.
Westminster con-
stituted an incor-
porate, town.
Burgess and six
commissioners to
be annually elect-
ed.
Justices of the
peace to appoint
one judge for
holding first elec-
tion.
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CHAPTER 128.
An act to incorporate Westminster, in Frederick county.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the three adjoining towns, now railed and known by the names of
Westminster, New-London, and Winter's Addition to Westminster,
shall for ever hereafter be called and known by the name of West-
minster.
2. And be it enacted, That Westminster aforesaid shall be and is
hereby constituted an incorporate town, and the inhabitants thereof
constituted a body politic and incorporate, by the name of the bur-
gess and commissioners of Westminster, and as such shall have
perpetual succession, and by their corporate name may sue and be
sued, implead and be impleaded.
3. And be it enacted, That the free white male citizens of West-
minster aforesaid, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, and
having resided six months in the said town next preceding the elec-
tion, be authorised to elect on the first Monday of April, in the year
eighteen hundred and nineteen, and on the same day annually for
ever thereafter, the burgess and six commissioners for the said town,
who shall be inhabitants thereof, above twenty-five years of age,
and holding real property in the said town; the election to be held
At the most central part of said town, and the polls to be kept open
from nine o'clock in the morning until two in the afternoon.
4. And be it enacted, That a justice of the peace, for the time be-
ing, residing in or near Westminster, shall appoint, by writing
under his hand and seal, one judge to hold the first election for bur-
gess and commissioners, and the said judge shall conduct the said
election in the manner in which the judges of an election district are
now by law directed to hold an election for delegates to the general
assembly, as far as may be consistent with the other provisions of
this act; and the said judge shall make return, under his hand and
6eal. of the persons elected as burgess and commissioners, to the
clerk of Frederick county, to be by him safely kept; all future elec-
tions to be held by one or more judges, in such manner as shall be
directed from time to time by ordinance of the corporation, the same
not being inconsistent with this law.
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