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ELECTIONS.

49. Frederick county is divided into seventeen election dis-
tricts, according to their present bounds and limits: Jefferson
district shall be extended so as to include within its limits that
portion of Frederick and Buckeystown district, commencing at
the top of the Catoctin Mountain between the property of
William Hurshberger and Henry Ouller at the County Road,
and running thence with said road to the Frederick and Harpers
Ferry Eidge Road at Mrs. Stockman's, and thence between the
property of William Smith and William Hargate, thence between
the property of John and Daniel Snider, thence in a straight line
between the property of John Eemsburg and Hamilton Gisbert,
and thence to strike the branch of the Georgetown Road, thence
along said road at the foot of the mountain to the Trammelstown
Road, and thence up said road to the top of the mountain, to
th» district line between Jefferson and Buckeystown districts;

and elections for all public offices shall be held in each district,
at the place established by law for that purpose.

50. The judges and clerks of elections in Frederick county,
shall each be entitled to three dollars for every day they shall
attend and act as such.

EMMITSBUBG.

51. The citizens of the town of Emmitsburg and Shields' Ad-
dition to Emmitsburg, in Frederick county, are a body corporate,
by the name of the burgees and commissioners of Emmitsburg,
and by that name may sue and be sued, may have and use a
common seal, and may purchase and hold real, personal and
mixed property, not exceeding in amount the sum of ten thou-
sand dollars, and may dispose of the same for the benefit of said
town.

52. The taxable limits of said town shall be as follows: begin-
ning on the road leading from Baltimore to Emmitsburg, at the
south-east corner of lot number one hundred and four, in the
plan of Emmitsburg, as recorded in the land records of Frederick
county, and running thence in a north-eastwardly direction with
the boundary line of Emmitsburg, until the said line strikes
Plat Eun, at the south-east corner of lot number one hundred
and eighty-seven, thence up Flat Eun until it strikes the road
leading from Gettysburg to Emmitsburg, at the north-east corner
of lot number one hundred and seventy-eight, thence in a straight