ART. 20.] TALBOT COUNTY. 861

135. The commissioners shall remain in office until their suc-
cessors are elected and qualified, and if the commissioners elect
shall fail to qualify within twenty days thereafter, the commis-
sioners shall, after twelve days' notice, hold a new election.

136. The bounds and limits of said town shall be as described
on the plat and survey thereof, on record in the office of the
clerk of the Circuit Court for Talbot county, and also all the
lands embraced within the following limits: Beginning on Tal-
bot street at a stone which limits the original corporation as
described on the plat thereof in the office of the clerk of the
Circuit Court, at the north-east corner of a lot belonging to the
heirs of Eichard Harrington, on said street, and running south
eighty-three degrees west, two hundred and forty feet to New
street, crossing said street a space of sixty feet and continuing
beyond or west of said street one hundred and twenty feet,
thence parallel with Talbot street north two and a half degrees
west eight hundred and fifty-five feet to Church Neck Road,
thence crossing said road north twenty degrees west three hun-
dred and fifty-six feet to the division line between the lands of
William Jones and John N. Hambleton, thence south eighty-
seven and a half degrees east two hundred and eighty feet to
Talbot street, including that portion of the town not covered by
said plat. .

137. The said commissioners shall meet on the second Monday
in every other month, and as much oftener as they may deem
necessary, and shall receive a per diem not exceeding one dollar
for their services, which shall be paid out of the fines and for-
feitures received by said commissioners; or if such fund shall
be insufficient, by a levy on said town, in the discretion of the
commissioners.

138*. The commissioners of the town of Saint Michael's shall
have full power and authority to levy on the real and personal
property in said town a sum not exceeding thirty-five cents in
every hundred dollars' worth of property in any one year, and
in the same proportion upon any greater or smaller share of
property, after a just and fair assessment and valuation by some
suitable and discreet person acting under oath and by them
appointed, the same to be made and returned annually
between the first and twenty-fifth of May, if they shall think
it necessary.