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An Act to incorporate Chesapeake City in Cecil County. 1849 [354] (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0194 and id is 1 raw text is: LA s OF MA'ikLA~b.* CHAP 271. CHAPTER 271. Passed March An act to Incorporate ClIesap cake City, in J, 1850. County. Preamble. WtiEriEAs. it is represented to this General Assembly, that it would greatly contribute to the advamtage and improvement of Chesapeake City and Bohemia Village,- in Cecil county, if the same should be placed undew the care and reguliation of certain commissioners to be elected by the citizens thereof, and vested with sufficient powers to forward and cflect the purposes intended- STherefore, Incorporated, ScroN 1: .Be it enacted by the General Assembly' &C. of IA'yrlanid, That the citizens of Chesapeake City and. Bolemia Village, in Cecil county, shall be and| they arc hereby constituted arid made a body ,orporate by the inmue of the president and commissioners of the towvn of ('hesapeake City, and as such shall have itid- cession, and by iheir corporate name may sue'and 'be sied, plead and be impleaded, grant, receive, and do all other acls as natural persons, and toay purchase and hold real, per.oial , and mixed property, or dispose of' the same for the benefit of the sid town, and may have and use a common scal, whichi may be bioken or al- tered at. pleasure. Commhsioners SjIc. 2. .lnd be it enacted, That all free while male to he elctetd citizens of the own of Chesapeake City aforesaid, a)ove twenty-one years of age, who shall have bona fide resiled in said town for and during the spane of six months, and twelve months in the slate, next ,receding the election, shall, on the first Monday ii May next, at the house now occupied as a tavern by John J. R. Poole, and on the first Monday in May in each and every year hereafter, at such house as shall here- after be designated by the municipality, be authorised to elect five judicious and discreet persons commissioners for the said town, and who shall have resided within the limits of the said town for at least twelve months next preceding the election. Firstele'tion. Si.. 3. rjnd be it enacted, That any justice of the- how condiucted peace for the county aforesaid, shall in the first instance, be the judge of said election, who shall open the polls at icu o'clock in the evening, and close the same at seve o'clock in the evening? anid shall return his certificate of the persons elected to the said commissionersi on the day Ii .st appointed for their meeting, and the same shall be iled and recorded among their proceedings. .180.

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