ART. 7,] CABHOLL COUNT?. 4X9
street of said town to the house of Elizabeth Dern, at the east
of Uniontown; then due north fifty perches, with a line parallel
with the aforesaid in a western direction, until it shall intersect
the division line between Henry W. Dell and William Roberta,
then with a line to include the .graveyard belonging to the St.
Lucas Church, then with a straight line to include the property
of Z. Welling, thence west with the public road leading from
Uniontown to Middleburgh to the place of beginning, and the
limits and bounds above described shall be and constitute the
town of Uniontown, and the citizens of the same are a body
corporate by the name of the " Burgess and Commissioners of
Uniontown," and as such shall have succession, and by their
corporate name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded,
in the several courts of this State, and may have and use
a common seal, and the same may alter and change at their
pleasure.
88*. The free white male citizens of Uniontown of the age of
twenty-one years and upwards, and having resided twelve
.months in said town next preceding the election, shall on the
first Monday in April in each and every year elect by ballot a
burgess, assistant burgess, and three commissioners, who shall
have resided within the limits of said town twelve months next
preceding the election and shall have attained the age of twenty-
one years.
84*. All elections shall be held and conducted as shall from
time to time be directed by the by-laws of the corporation, the
same not being inconsistent with the provisions of this article.
85*. The burgess shall preside at all meetings of the munici-
pality, with the privilege of the casting vote only, and in his
absence the assistant burgess shall preside under the same re-
strictions, but when the burgess is present, the assistant burgess
shall have the same power and authority as one of the commis-
aionera.
86*. The burgess and commissioners aforesaid, or a majority
of them, may meet together from time to time, as often as occa-
sion may require, upon the business of the town, and not less
than once in every three months, and if during the year for
which they may be elected, the burgess, assistant burgess, or any
of the commissionera, should die, resign, remove from said town,
or be non compoa mentis or displaced, an election to fill the
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