President & Commissioners of Elkton v. Sweet

Elkton, the county seat of Cecil County, is an incorporated town. Its municipal affairs are administered by a board called “The President and Commissioners of the Town of Elkton,” and composed of a President and four Commissioners. These offices are created by chapter II of the Acts of 1914, and the officials occupying them are elected in accordance with the terms of that act.

The part of that statute relating to their election which is material to this case is as follows: “On the fourth Monday in May, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and every two years thereafter, the duly registered voters…