EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

705

CHAPTER 401.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 59

to 79 inclusive, of Article 19 of the Code of Public Local

Laws of Maryland, title "St. Mary's County," sub-title

"Leonardtown,'' and the amendments additonal thereto, as

amended and enacted by Chapter 479 of the Acts of the Gen-

eral Assembly of Maryland of 1900, entitled "An Act to re-

peal and re-enact with amendments Sections 73 and 74 of

Article 19 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title 'St. Mary's

County,' sub-title 'Leonardtown,' and to change the name of

the corporation mentioned therein."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Leonardtown

land, That Sections 59 to 79 inclusive, of Article 19 of the Code

St. Mary's
County.

of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "St. Mary's County,"

Md.

sub-title "Leonardtown," and the amendmnets and additions

thereto, as amended and enacted by Chapter 479 of the Acts of

the General Assembly of Maryland of 1900, be and the same

are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments.

59. The citizens of the village of Leonardtown in St. Mary's

Commission-

County are and shall continue to be a body corporate by the

ers of same.

name of "The Commissioners of Leonardtown," and the same

shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, use a

common seal and possess such powers, privileges and incidents.

as may attend to a municipal corporation, may purchase and

hold real, personal and mixed property, and dispose of the same

for the benefit of the said town.

60. The taxable and corporate limits of said town shall be

Establishing

accurately established and bounded, and a full description of

corporate
limits.

same be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for St. Mary's

County, to be recorded in one of the deed records of said county.

61. The male citizens living within the corporate limits of

Qualification

"The Commissioners of Leonardtown," above twenty-one

of voters

years of age, who shall have resided in the town for the space

of four months, and twelve months in the State of Maryland

next preceding the election, and shall be at the time a citizen

of the United States, together with residents of St. Mary's

County owning real estate within said corporation, and posess-

ing all the above-prescribed qualifications, except residing in

said town, shall elect by ballot on the first Monday in May,

1904, at the Court House or at such other suitable place as may

be designated by the Commissioners of the village of Leonard-

town, five discreet persons who shall have all the requisites

of a voter in said town, and who shall have resided within the

limits of said corporation for at least twelve months next pre-

ceding the election. Three of the Commissioners elected shall

serve for the term of two years, and two for the term of one

year, and the time each Commissioner is to serve shall be de-

termined by lot among themselves, and annually thereafter, on

the first Monday in May in each year, alternately, two and