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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

able at any period longer than twenty years from the

date of issue ; said bonds to be exempt from taxation

Exempt from

for county and municipal purposes, and the said Pre-

taxation

sident and Commissioners shall have power to sub-

scribe, out of the money arising from the sale of said

bonds, such sum or sums as they may deem proper

tor the capital stock of any corporation or corpora-

tions hereafter formed for the purpose of supplying

said town with pure water and gas, or to loan to such

corporation or corporations out of said moneys, such

sum or sums as they may deem proper, the said cor-

poration or corporations securing the same in such

manner as to said President and Commissioners may

seem safe and proper.

SEC. 162. The said President and Commissioners

may, on application of any person holding a lot or

Establish

lots in said town, have the same surveyed and the

limits

limits thereof established by a committee of three of

their own body, who, or any two of them, may em-

ploy a surveyor for the purpose, and expenses,

thereof shall be charged in fair proportion upon the

holders of lots surveyed, and may -be collected as

Proviso

other small debts; provided, that upon application

for survey, the owners of adjoining lots or their

agents shall be notified, if residing in said town, and

if neither the owner of said lots, nor their agents

shall reside in said town, the notice of the time and

place of making said survey shall be posted at the

post-office in said town at least twenty days before

said survey.

SEC. 163. The person making such survey shall

Establish per-
manent boun-
daries

establish permanent boundaries of the lots surveyed,
and a certificate of the survey and bounds thereof,

shall be returned by the surveyor, attested by two or

more commissioners, and recorded among the office

papers of the said President and Commissioners, and

a certified copy thereof shall be evidence of the lines

of said lots.

SEC. 164. All taxes, fines, forfeitures and penalties

Application of
fines, &c,

imposed by the said President and Commissioners,

by virtue of any law or ordinance, shall be applied

tor the use of said town, as may from time to time

be directed by said President and Commissioners:

and all such fines, penalties and forfeitures may be