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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, removal, 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 Commissioners, and the
Clerk and Bailiff shall qualify by taking and subscribing the following
Oath to be administered by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany

County: "I, ........................................................, do swear that I will execute

the office of (Mayor, Commissioner, Clerk or Bailiff, as the case may be)
to 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.
The Mayor may appoint from among the four Commissioners one who
shall be known as "Police and Fire Commissioner," and who shall have
under special charge the enforcement of all police regulations of said town
and general supervision over the fire department thereof: One Commis-
sioner to be known as "The Commissioner of Streets and Public Property,"
who shall have under his special charge the supervision of streets, sewers,
alleys, public grounds and property of the town, and be charged with the
duty of keeping them in a clean and sanitary condition and with the en-
forcement of all rules and regulations to these ends, and who shall also
have under his special charge the supervision of all public improvements
except as may be otherwise provided; one Commissioner to be known
as "The Water and Light Commissioner," who shall have under his special
charge the construction, maintenance and operation of the water and
lighting systems of said town and shall see to the enforcement of all
rules and regulations with respect to said systems; One Commissioner,
who shall be known as the "Commissioner of Finance and Revenue," who
shall have under his special charge the enforcement of all laws for the
assessment and collection of taxes of every kind and collection of all
revenues belonging to said town from whatever source the same be derived
and who shall examine and keep informed as to the finances of said
town.

Passed at a regular meeting of the Mayor and Commissioners of West-
ernport, Maryland, held the 2nd day of August 1971.

Ray L. Wilt, Mayor
ATTEST:
Katherine Hartig, Clerk

Amendment No. 6—1971

To the Charter of the Town of Westernport, Maryland changing the
limits of said town.

Be it resolved by the Mayor and Commissioners of Westernport that
Section 572 of the 1960 Edition of the Charter and Ordinances of the
Town of Westernport relating to the limits of said Town, reading as
follows:

1953, Ch. 8, Sec. 641