JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

the Code of Public Local Laws of the State of Maryland,"
entitled "Charles County," sub-title "La Plata," and to enact
the following in lieu thereof: "Be and the same are hereby
repealed," and Sections 91 to 116, inclusive, of Article 9, of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Charles
County," sub-title ' La Plata," are hereby re-enacted, with
amendments, so as to read as follows:

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91. The Citizens of the Town of La Plata, in Charles
County, are hereby created a body corporate by the name of
'Town Commissioners of La Plata,1'' with all the powers and
privileges of a body politic and corporate, and by said cor-
porate name may have perpetual succession, may sue and be
sued, and may have and use a common seal.

Town
Commission'rs
of La Plata,
Incorporated.

92. The corporate limits of said town shall be as follows:
Beginning at a point marked by a set stone on the south side
of the public road leading through said town of La Plata from.
Bryantown to Port Tobacco, which said point of beginning is
south seventy-eight and one-half (78 1/2) degrees west, eight
hundred and ninety-eight (898) feet from the south meridian
stone in the Court House yard in said town of La Plata, and
running thence south five and one-half (5 1/2) degrees east,
continuing and extending with the dividing line between the
lands of William T. Maurice and L. Allison Wilmer, fifteen
hundred and thirty-eight (1,538) feet to a set stone; then south
eighty-eight (88) degrees east, twenty-five hundred and
ninety-five (2,595) feet to a set stone; then north twenty-nine
and one-quarter (29 1/4) degrees east, twenty-five hundred and
thirty (2,530) feet to a set stone on the north side of the afore-
mentioned public road; thence north twenty-two and one-half
(22 1/2) degrees west, twenty-two hundred and seventy-seven
(2,277) feet to a set stone; then north eighty-three and one-
half (83 1/2) degrees west, twenty-one hundred and twelve
(2, 112) feet; then south forty-four and three-quarters (44 3/4)
degrees west in a straight line until it intersects the prolonga-
tion of the first line of the boundary of said town reversed
from the beginning; then with said intersected line south five
and one-half (5 1/2) degrees east to the beginning, containing
three hundred and thirty- three (333) acres of land, more or
less.

Corporate
limits of said
town.

93. The citizens of said town of La Plata having the quali-
fications prescribed for voters by the laws of this State, and
having resided in said town for three months previous to any
municipal election, shall annually, on the first Monday in May,
elect five freeholders, who shall have resided in said town for

Annual
election.
Terms of office