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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 53.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments
that portion of article twenty-one of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, contained between
sections three bund-red and fourteen and three
hundred and thirty-four, both inclusive, title
''Washington county, " sub-title "Williamsport, "
and to confirm and make valid the election held
in said Town of Williamsport, on the first Monday
in March eighteen hundred and seventy-five, for
Burgess, Assistant Burgess and five Commission-
ers for said town, and to confirm and make valid the
action of the said officers so selected in appointing
a bailiff in said town.

Repealed and
Re-enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That so much of article twenty-one of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland as is con-
tained between sections three hundred and fourteen
and three hundred and thirty-four, both inclusive,
title "Washington county, "sub-title "Williamsport, "
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

Incorporation

SEC. 314. The citizens of the Town of Williams-
port in Washington county are a body corporate by
the name of the Burgess and Commissioners of Wil-
liamsport and by that name may sue and be sued,
and have and use a common seal.

Bounds.

SEC. 315. The bounds of said town are as described
on a plat thereof recorded in the office of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for Washington county.

Election, of
officers.

SEC. 316. The male citizens of Williamsport of the
age of twenty-one years and upwards, and who have
resided in said town for twelve months next preceed-
ing the election shall annually on the first Monday
in March, at such place as shall be designated by the
corporation, elect a burgess, an assistant burgess and
five commissioners of said town, who shall have re-