600 FREDERICK COUNTY. [ART. 11.

certificate of the justice, for the use of the person, holding the
same.

WOODSBORO'.

326. The citizens of Woodsboro', in Frederick county, are a
body corporate by the name of The Burgess and Commissioners
of Woodsboro', and by that name may sue and be sued, and have
and use a common seal.

327. The corporate limits of the town of Woodsboro' shall be
as follows: Commencing at a spring owned by David Davis, from
whence he leads water in pipes to his house, and running thence
to Michael Shank's watering place, (Israel's Creek;) thence with
said creek to the line dividing the farms owned by Messrs. John
Olempson and John Miller; thence with said line to John Cram-
bough's line, east of his farm; thence, with a straight line, to the
beginning; and the taxable limits of said town shall include all
that part of said town, now improved, or that may hereafter be
improved by the citizens of said town, together with the pro-
perty owned by George Shank, in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty-eight, the same being the bounds and limits laid down in
the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, chapter two hun-
dred and thirty-nine.

328. The free white male citizens of Woodsboro', of the age of
twenty-one years and upwards, who shall have resided in said
town twelve months next preceding the election, shall, on the
first Monday in April, annually, at such place aa shall be desig-
nated by the burgess and commissioners, elect a burgess and
three commissioners, qualified in all respects as the said voters.

329. All elections shall be held and conducted as shall from
time to time be directed by the ordinances of the corporation, not
inconsistent with the provisions of this charter.

830. If, during the year for which they may be elected, the
burgess, or any of the commissioners, shall die, resign, remove
from said towni or be non compos, or displaced, an election to fill
such vacancy shall be held, and all persons qualified to vote at a
regular shall be entitled to vote at such special election.

331. The burgess, before he enters upon the duties of his office,
shall qualify as required by section 6 of article sixty-eight of the
code; each commissioner, before he acts as such, shall make oath