The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-04-13

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for or for any part thereof, and such deed
lease or conveyance shall pass as good a title
to the grantee therein as though the same
had been executed by an individual.
TOWN OF BLOOMINGTON.
IS. The citizens of the town OF Bloomington
in Garrett county, shall be constituted and
made a body corporate by the name of The
Commissioners of Bloomington, with all the
privileges of a body corporate, and to have u
common seal and perpetual succession.
II. The male citizens of bloomington, afore-
said, of the age Of twenty-one years and up
wards, being citizens OF the United States,
who have resided i'm said town for and during
six months next preceding the first Monday
in June, eighteen hundred and seVenty-eight,
may, on that day mt the place designated by
the Judges appointed as hereinafter provi-
ded, in said town, and on the first Monday in
June in each and every year thereafter, at
such houses is thereafter shall be designated
by the municipality, be authorized to elect
five commissioners for said town, who Shall
have resided within the limits ofthe same six
months next preceding the election.
II. y Justice fthe Peace for the time being
holding Office in said town. shall app int. by
writing, under his handand seal. three Judges
to hold the hrst election, who shall keep the
polls open from nine O'Clock in the morning
until five O'Clock in the Afternoon, and shall
conduct the said election in the same manner
in which the judges Of elections have been di-
rected 10 conduct an election for delegates to
tIle JSlleIill Assembly, ny All iCIS passed tlt
the January session. eighteen hundred and
SiXty-SeVen, relating to holding of elections,
ana the said Judges shall make return un-
der their hands aud seal, of the persons cleo
ted to the Clerk of Garrett county to be re-
tanned by him.
70. All future elections shall be held and
conducted as shall from time to time be di-
rected by the laws of the corporation, the
same not being inconsistent with the proVi-
stone of this act or of this State.
50. Said Commissioners elected according
to the provisions of this act, SHALL the first
meeting after said election, choose some one
of said Commissioners as president of the
Board, whose duty it shall be to preside at the
meetings of said Commissioners. and preserve
order and give such directions as may be
deemed necessary by the said commissioners
to carry into effect the full provisions of this
act.
81. The Commissioners aforesaid, or a ma
jority of them, may meet together from time
to time as occasion may require, upon the
business of said town and not less than once
in three months, and if during the year for
which they may be elected, any of the said
Commissioners shauld die, resign, remove
from said town, or be otherwise disqualified,
an election to fill the vacancy, on ten days
notice thereOfbeing given by theCOmmisSiOn-
ers, shall be held at which all persons quail
fed as specified in the second section of this
charter shall be entitled to vote.
81. The said commissioners, or a majority
of them shall have power to appoint clerk
and assign his duties, and allow him cOmpen-
Sation for such services as they may think
proper, and all ordinances passed by said
Commissioners or a majority of them, shall
by their clerk be entered into Il book to be
kept by him for that purpose and shall be
open at all times for the inspection of any
person interested, and copies fall ordinan-
ceS shall beput up in the most public places
of said town that the same may be generally
known.
IS. All fines and forfeitureS under the ordi-
nanceS ofthe said corporation shall be recOV-
! a
court before any Justice of the Peace.
81. The limits of said town shall extend to
the distance of One-half mile each way from
the public well in said town. and the property
within said limits shall be subject SO such
taxes and charges as may be deemed neces .
sary by said Commissioners, or a majority of
them, to support or maintain the expenses
that may occur from time to time in the inn
proVement eff said town.
So. The said Commissioners or majority of
them, shall have full power TO make all such
bylaws and regulations and ordinances not
Inconsistent with the laws and const tuition
of this state, as from time to time they may
deem wise necessary and eXpedient for the
comfort, health, convenience and property of
said town and its inhabitants, for the proven
ton and removal of nuisances, preservation
of health and suppression ofVice and immor-
ality within the limits of said town, and shall
! have power to lay an equal tax upon the
property within the said limits to such an
amount as may he deemed necessary to ac-
complish the purposes aforesaid, which tax
shall be collected and paid o the President
and Commissioners by the Collector by tn EN-
appointed, who shall have the same power to
distrain therefor as the collector OF public
county assessments has to distrain for same,
and the said President and Commissioners
shall fix the term of office, amount of bond
and compensation of such collector.
Sc. The said Commissioners or majority of
them shall have tull power and authority to
annually appoints bailiff, whose duty ii shall
be to preserve the peace and good order of
said town, and for this purpose he is hereby
as any constable may now have under the
law of his State.
81 Nothing herein contained shall be so
construed as to authorize the corporation
hereby created to issue any device, certificate
or evidence of debt to be issued as currency,
and the legislatures reserves the right to
amend or repeal this charter when the same
shall be deemed advisable.