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years of age, (b) delete the qualification that town commissioners own real estate
to the value of five hundred dollars and (c) divide Section 29-4 into five
subsections, and said amendments to Section 29-5 to (a) lower the voting age from
twenty-one years to eighteen years and (b) lower the residency requirement from
one year to one month.

Section 1. Be it resolved by the Commissioners of Perryville. Town of
Perryville, that Section 29-4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Cecil County.
1970 as amended in March 1971, said Code being Article 8 of the Public Local
Laws of Maryland, and said Section being a part of the Charter of the Town of
Perryville, be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with five
subdivisions, (a) through (e) and with amendments to read as follows:

Sec. 29-4. Board of Commissioners; town districts.

(A)   All powers of the town shall be vested in a Board of Commissioners
consisting of six commissioners who shall be elected from a total of three districts
as hereinafter provided. In the election on the second Tuesday of May in 1971, two
commissioners shall be elected from each of three districts. The candidate who
receives the greatest number of votes in each district shall hold office for two
years. The candidate who receives the next highest number of votes in each district
shall hold office for one year. Beginning with the election on the first Tuesday of
May in 1972 and each subsequent year thereafter, three commissioners shall be
elected, one from each district. The candidate who receives the highest number of
votes in each district shall hold office for a term of two years. The regular term of
commissioners shall expire on the second Monday following the election of their
successors or when their successors take office. Commissioners shall have resided
in the town for at least one year immediately preceding their election and shall be
both AT LEAST TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE AND qualified voters of the
town [and own real estate to the value of five hundred dollars]. No commissioner
shall receive any compensation for his services as such.

(B)  The boundaries of the three districts shall be as follows:

First District: The First District shall comprise all the area beginning at a point
on the East bank of the Susquehanna River where the centerline of the B. & O.
Railroad bridge crosses said river, thence in an Easterly direction along said
centerline of the B. & O. Railroad to a point where same intersects the
Pennsylvania Railroad's Baltimore to Harrisburg line, thence in a Southerly
direction along the centerline of said Pennsylvania Railroad to a point where the
Easternmost spur crosses the centerline of Broad Street and/or State Highway
Route No. 7, thence in an Easterly direction along the centerline of said Route
No. 7 to the extreme Easternmost boundary line of the Town of Perryville, thence
in a Southerly direction along said Town boundary and following same to Mill
Creek and continuing on along the Southernmost boundary line between Perry
Point Veterans Hospital grounds and Perryville limits to the Eastern bank of the
Susquehanna River, thence along the Eastern bank of said river to point of
beginning, said area to be represented by two commissioners residing therein.

(C)  Second District: The Second District shall comprise all that area beginning
at a point in the centerline of Route No. 7 where the Easternmost Town Boundary
crosses said highway, thence in a Northerly direction along said Eastern Town
Boundary to where same crosses the centerline of the B. & O. Railroad, thence in
a Westerly direction along said centerline of the B. & O. Railroad to a point
where the B. & O. Railroad bridge crosses the centerline of the Pennsylvania
Railroad's Baltimore to Harrisburg line, thence in a Southerly direction along said
centerline of the Pennsylvania Railroad to a point where the Easternmost railroad
spur crosses the centerline of Broad Street and/or State Highway Route No. 7 to