The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-05-22

SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General As.
sembly of Maryland, That chapter 5I9 of the
Acts of 1884, entitled IAN Act 10 Incorporate
the town of Deer Park. in Garrett county" be
and the same is hereby repealed, and re-
enacted to read as follows:
SEC. And be it enacted by the General As
sembly of Maryland, That the inhabitants OF
the town of Deer Park in Garrett county be
and they are hereby constituted q body cor
porate by the name of"The Mayor and Com.
mon Council of Deer Park and by that name
may sue and be sued, have and use a common
seal, which they may alter and change at
pleasure, and have perpetual succession.
SEC. 2 And be II enacted, That the cOrpor-
ate bounds and limits of said town of Deer
Park shall embrace an area ofone square mile,
lines to run North and South, East and West,
and beginning at point North forty five de-
grees, east two hundred and twenty-siX and a
quarter rods from where the road from Sandy
Flat to Deer Park crosses the road from
Bradford TO Deer Park and Altamont. said
point being the centre of said town, and that
tne plat o. SAID town heretofore made and filed
andrecorded in theoffice ofthe Clerk ofthe Cir.
cunt Court for Garrett county, shall constitute
the boundaries and limits of said town.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the legal
voters OF Deer Park who have resided within
the corporate limits thereof for six months
next preceding the election and all male cit
liens of the United States who Cwn any inter-
est in real estate, or on houses in said town,
of the age of twenty-one years and over shall
on the first Monday of May, in the year eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-siX and shall every
TWO years thereafter, on Jne HfSJ MONDAY III
May, elect from among the male citizens of
said town, who are legal voters and have re-
sided within its corporate limits for twelve
months next preceding the Date of such cleo
ton, they being tax payers on either real or
personal property therein, a Mayor and four
Common Councilmen, to serve for two years
from the date of their election and until their
successors are duly elected and qualified, and
the services of said Mayor and Common Coun-
cilmen shall be gratuitous and without pay.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted That I. IL. Sim
MONS Frank Thrasher and l.. II. Scheduled,
be and they are hereby appointed Judges of
Election to hold the first election under this
act, who shall give at least five days notice by
posting not less than three written or printed
notices. IN three or more conspicuous public
places in said town, of the time and place at
which said election shall be held and the said
judges of election, before opening the polls
shall take an oath before some Justice of the
Peace ofsaid county to permit every qualified
Vorer as aforesaid to vote, and none other;
and majority of said three Judges shall have
power tO do all thing, named under this sec
ton, in case one of them dies or refuses to act;
and said judges shall keep the polls open at
least three consecutive hours, and shall record
the names of the voters, and after the cl osing
of the polls shall al once count the ballots and
announce the result, and make and sign GER
tlftcate thereof to be filed among the records
of said corporation =; and the said Mayor and
Common COuncilmen so elected SHALL as soon
thereafter as convenient, qualify and serve
until the second Monday of May, eighteen
hundred and eighty eight, and until their
failure to qualify within fifteen days after
their election shall be deemed a refusal on the
part Of the party or person so falling to accept
the office to which he has been elected.
SEC. 81 And be il enacted, That ifany person
so elected either as Mayor or Common Coun-
Gilman shall refuse as such, or mis- place shall
become vacant by death resignation disqual-
ifcation or otherwise, the Common Council
men or a majority of them in the event OF
any vancancy, of the Mayoralty as above pro-
vided shall fill such vacancy as early as pos
sibe from among the qualified voters of said
towu and the person so appointed to fill said
vacancy shalt hold the office until the next
election and In the event of a vacancy or
vacancies among the Common Councilmen,;
they shall Mt once proceed to fill said vacancy
from among the qualified voters of the town
and the person or persons so appointed shall
hold said Office untfl the next election.
SEC. u, And be IL enacted, That all future
elections shall be held and conducted as shall
be from time to time directed by the laws of
the Corporation, the same not being incon-
sistent with the provisions of this act.
SEC. 7. And be 10 enacted, That the Mayor
and each Common Councilman before he acts
as such shall make oath before "a Justice of
the Peace, in and for Garrett county, that he
will perform the duties of Mayor or Common
Councilman, as the case may be, Of said town,
without favor. partlality or prejudice, and n
certificate of such qualification snail be made
by said Justice of the Peace, and shall be filed
and recorded among the records of proceed
ings of saih Corporation.
SEC s. And be IL enacted, That said Mayor
and Common Councilmen shall meet once in
every two months, and more often If they