ART. 21.] WASHINGTON CocNT.r. 915

207. All jndgments rendered by a justice of the peace in said
county shall be a lien on all lands and real estate of the defendant
in such judgment, lying within said county, from the time when
a short copy of such judgment shall have been filed and recorded
in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for said county, and
the clerk of the Circuit Court shall keep a separate record book
for such copies, with an index thereto, stating doubly the names
of the plaintiff and defendant, and shall be entitled to the sum of
twenty-five cents for filing, recording and indexing every such
copy.

208. He shall, on the application of the plaintiff in any such
judgment, issue execution thereon, directed to the sheriff, and
returnable before the Circuit Court in the said county.

LEITEESBUKG.

209. The citizens of Leitersburg, in Washington county, are a
body corporate by the name of " The Burgess and Commissioners
of Leitersburg," and by that name may sue and be sued, and
may have and use a common seal.

. 210. The bounds of the town of Leitersburg shall be as follow:

Commencing at a poplar tree on the road leading from Leiters-
bnrg to Smithsburg, near a stable belonging to Jeremiah Slick;

thence running with a straight line to a stable near the house
occupied by Daniel Lawmanson in the year eighteen hundred
and fifty-three; thence with a straight line to a spring on or
near a lot belonging to Nathan McDowell, on the road leading
from Leitersburg to Green Castle; thence with a straight line to
a blacksmith shop occupied by G. W. Lantz in said year, belong-
ing to George Poe; thence with a straight line to the beginning.

211. The free white male citizens' of Leitersburg, of the age of •
twenty-one years and upwards, who have resided twelve months
in said town next preceding the election, shall, on the first
Monday in April in each year, elect by ballot a burgess; assistant
burgesss, and three commissioners, of the age of twenty-one
years, who shall have resided in said town twelve months next
preceding the election.

212. All elections shall be held and conducted as shall from
time to time be directed by the by-laws of the corporation, not
inconsistent with this charter.