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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and Council of Boonsborough, and by that name shall have per-

Incorporation
of Boons-

petual succession, may sue and be sued, may have and use a

borough,

common seal, and possess such other incidents and powers as

Washington
County.

attach by law to a municipal corporation, and may purchase and

hold real, personal and mixed property for the benefit of said

corporation; provided, however, that the Burgess and Council

shall not purchase or acquire any real estate unless the said

Burgess and Council shall first provide by ordinance for said

purchase and the mode and manner of payment therefor, and

all ordinances for the purchase of real estate shall provide

for submitting the question of said purchase to the qualified

voters of said town at some regular election for the election

of Burgess and Councilmen of said town, and before any such

ordinance shall be submitted to the qualified voters of the town

at least four weeks' public notice shall be given by handbills

posted in at least fifteen conspicuous places in the town of an

intention to submit said ordinance to the qualified voters of the

Submitting
ordinances to

town, and said notice shall set forth the ordinance in full and the

popular vote.

mode and manner of payment proposed, and no ordinance for

the purchase of real estate shall be of any force or validity

unless it shall receive a majority of all the votes cast at such

election.

36. The government of said town shall be vested in a Bur-

Government of

gess, Assistant Burgess and five Councilmen, to be elected as

town.

hereinafter provided. No person elected and qualified as Bur-

gess, Assistant Burgess or Councilman, or any person holding

any office by election, appointment or otherwise, under the pro-

visions of the sub-title of this Article, or by virtue thereof.

shall, during the term of his office, be interested, directly or in-

directly, in any contract in which the town is a party or is in-

terested ; nor shall any such person, while holding such office, be

directly or indirectly engaged in furnishing work, labor or

materials for said town ; and any person violating the pro-

visions of this section shall be proceeded against by indictment

in the Circuit Court for Washington County, and, upon convic-

tion, be fined and imprisoned, or both, in the discretion of the

court.

37. The taxable limits of the town of Boonsborough are de-

Taxable limits

clared to be as follows : Beginning at the sixty-first milestone,

of the town.

standing at the intersection of the east margin of the Boons-

borough and Hagerstown turnpike with the north margin of

the public roid leading to Mapleville, and running thence south

thirty-four and one-fourth degrees west, one hundred and

thirty-six and four-tenths perches to a stone on the north mar-