Westernport                                     2357

BE IT RESOLVED, that Chapter 8, Section 642 of the 1953 Edi-
tion and more particularly Section 573 of the 1960 Edition of the Charter
and Ordinances of the Town of Westernport, reading as follows:

Section 573. (a) The citizens of said Town of Westernport of the age
of twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens of the United States of
America who shall have resided in said town for and during a space of six
months next preceding any municipal election, shall be qualified to vote at
any municipal election of officers in said town, and the qualified voters are
hereby authorized on the fourth Tuesday of May in the year 1954, and
biennially thereafter at the usual place of holding elections in said town,
or at such place or places as shall be designated by the Mayor and Com-
missioners of Westernport, to elect one person who shall have resided
within the limits thereof at least two years next preceding said election,
be a qualified voter therein and assessed in his own name or as a tenant
by the entireties for town taxes for the immediate preceding year upon
a real estate valuation of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or more. The
said Mayor shall serve for two years and until his successor is elected and
qualified and shall preside at all meetings of the Mayor and Commissioners
of Westernport, and shall be entitled to vote upon all matters pending
before them, and shall execute all ordinances passed by them, and in the
absence of the Mayor at any meeting of the Mayor and Commissioners of
Westernport, the Commissioners may appoint a President, who shall have
all of the powers of the Mayor, except to sign ordinances. The qualified
voters are at the same time and place authorized and directed to elect four
Commissioners for the said town who shall have resided within the limits
of the same for at least two years next preceding the election, be qualified
voters at said municipal election and each assessed in his own name or as
tenants by the entireties for town taxation for the immediate preceding
year upon a real estate valuation of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) or
more, each of whom shall serve for a term of two years and until their suc-
cessors are elected and qualified. Annually the Mayor and Commissioners of
Westernport, at their first meeting, which shall be on the first Monday of
June or as soon as possible thereafter, select one person to serve as Bailiff of
said town until the first Monday of June of the following year and until
his successor is selected and qualified. On the first Monday of June 1954,
they shall appoint one person as Clerk of said town, who shall serve for
one year, and on the first Monday of June 1955, and biennially thereafter
they shall appoint a Clerk for a term of two years and until his successor
is appointed and qualified. The said Mayor and Commissioners shall have
the power to fill by appointment all vacancies occurring from death, re-
moval, resignation or any other cause, whether in the office of Mayor or
Commissioner or in any other office provided for this subtitle. The said
Mayor and each of said Commissioners, and the Clerk and Bailiff shall
qualify by taking and subscribing the following Oath to be administered

by some Justice of the Peace for Allegany County: "I,....................................,

do swear that I will execute the office of Mayor, Commissioner, Clerk or
Bailiff, of the Town of Westernport, as the same may be, the best of my
ability, without favor, partiality or prejudice." Which oath shall be filed
in the town records.

(b) The Mayor and Commissioners of Westernport shall have the gen-
eral and exclusive control and supervision over all of the departments con-
cerned with the town's affairs, and shall have power to make and enforce
such rules and regulations as they may see fit and proper for the organiza-
tion, management, and operation of all departments of said town and over
whatever agencies may be created for the administration of its affairs.