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162. The said president and commissioners may; on applica-
tion of any person holding a lot or lots in said village, have the
same surveyed, and the lines thereof established, by a committee
of three of their own body, who, or any two of them, may employ
a surveyor for the purpose, and the expenses thereof shall be
charged in fair proportion upon the holders of the lots surveyed,
and may be collected as other small debts.

163. The person making such survey shall establish permanent
bouDdariea of the lots surveyed, and a certificate of the survey
and bounds thereof shall be returned by the surveyor, attested
by two or more commissioners, and recorded among the office
papers of said commissioners, and a certified copy thereof shall
be evidence of the lines of said lots.

164. All taxes, fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed by the
said commissioners, by virtue of any law or ordinance, shall bo
applied for the use of the said village, as may from time to time
by ordinance be directed. •

RISING SUN.

165*. The citizens of the village of Eising Sun, in Cecil county,
Maryland, are a body politic by the name of " The Commissioners
of Rising Sun," with all the privileges of a body corporate, and as
such shall have succession, and by their corporate name may
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, grant, receive and do
all other acts as natural persons, and may purchase and hold
real, personal and mixed property, or dispose of the same for
the benefit of said village, and have and use a common seal,
which they may change at pleasure.

166*. The free male white citizens of said village of the age
of twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens of the United
States, who shall have resided in said village for and during the
space of six months preceding, may on the second Monday in
May in each and every year, at the usual place of holding elec-
tions in said village, be authorized to elect five commissioners
for said town, who shall have resided within the corporate limits
of the same one year next preceding the election.

167*. The said commissioners shall, on the first meeting after
said election, choose one from among their number who shall be
president of the board, whose duty it shall be to preside at the
meetings of said commissioners and preserve decorum, and give