822 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8

P L. L., (1860,) art. 8, sec 68.

127. The judges and clerks of election in Cecil county shall
each be allowed for every election at which they may attend and
act, and for making the returns thereof, the sum of three dollars
per day.

Ibid. sec. 64.

128. The judges of elections in the several election districts in
said county may, in their discretion, appoint two of the constables
of their respective districts to attend on the days of election at
the place of receiving votes, for the purpose of preserving the
peace.

ELKTON.

1880, ch. 435.

129. The inhabitants of the town of Elkton are a corporation
by the name of "The President and Commissioners of the Town of
Elkton," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, may
sue and be sued, may purchase, hold and dispose of real, personal
and mixed property, for the use and benefit of said town; and
may have and use a common seal, which may be altered at pleas-
ure.

Ibid.

130. Said commissioners shall be five in number, and shall be
elected on the first Monday in May, annually; and all male
citizens of the United States above twenty-one years of age, who
shall own property assessed in the limits of the town, and shall
have paid their assessment, and all male inhabitants of the town,
citizens of the United States, above twenty-one years of age, who
shall have bona fide resided in the town two years next preceding
.the election at which they shall offer to vote, shall be entitled to
vote for said commissioners.

Ibid.

131. The commissioners shall annually designate the time
and place of holding said , election, and give at least two weeks'
notice thereof by notices set up at five of the most prominent
places in the town; and at some meeting prior to the first Monday
of May in each year shall appoint some person to act as judge of
said election, who, before acting as such, shall qualify in the same