1270 LAWS or MARYLAND. [Ch. 770]

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 720 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at the January Session of 1910, title "Charles
County," sub-title "La Plata," and to re-enact the following in
lieu thereof, and to add a new section thereto to be known as

91. The citizens of the Town of La Plata, in Charles
county, are hereby created a body corporate by the name of
Town Commissioners of La Plata, with all the powers and
privileges of a body politic and corporate, and by said cor-
porate name may have perpetual succession, may sue and be
sued and may have and use a common seal.

92. The corporate limits of said town shall be as follows:
Beginning at a stone fixed in the earth on the south side of the
main road leading through said Town of La Plata from Bryan-
town to Port Tobacco, which point of beginning is south seventy-
eight and one-half (78 1/2) degrees, west eight hundred and nine-
ty-eight (898) feet from the south meridian stone in the Court
House yard, and running thence south five and one-half (5 1/2)
degrees east, continuing and extending with the dividing line
between the lands of the late William F. Maurice, deceased,,
and L. Allison Wilmer fifteen hundred and thirty-eight (1,538)
feet to a set stone; then south eighty-eight (88) degrees east
twenty-five hundred and ninety-five (2,595) feet to a set stone;
then north twenty-nine and one-fourth (29 1/4 ) degrees east
twenty-five hundred and thirty (2,530) feet to a set stone on
the north side of the aforementioned main road; then north
twenty-two and one-half (22 1/2) degrees west nineteen hun-
dred and forty-se-ven (1,947) feet to a set stone near Duffield's
house; then north eighty-three and one half (83 1/2) degrees
west seventeen hundred and eighty-two (1,782) fect to a set
stone; then south forty-four and three-fourths (44 3/4) degrees
west twenty-one hundred and twelve (2,112) feet to a set
stone; then south five and one-half (5 1/2) degrees east eleven
hundred and fifty-five (1,155) feet to the beginning, containing
two hundred and ninety-seven (297) acres of land, more or less.

93. The citizens of said Town of La Plata having the qual-
ification prescribed for voters by the laws of this State, and
having resided in said town three months previous to any
municipal election, shall annually on the first Monday in May
elect three male citizens, taxpayers of the said Town of La
Plata, who are assessed on the tax books of Charles county
as owning five hundred dollars' worth, of property within the
corporate limits of said Town of La Plata, who shall have
resided in said town for six months next preceding said elec-