PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 759

CHAPTER 545.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Chapter 513
of the Acts of 1910, entitled An Act to incorporate the Town
of Capitol Heights, Prince George's County, State of Mary-
land, and to create therein a governing body by the name
and style of Mayor and Common Council; and also to make
unlawful and to punish as a misdemeanor the making or sale
of intoxicating liquor within the limits of said Capitol
Heights, and to prohibit the issuing of any license for such
sale of liquor within said town. "

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
Chapter 513 of the Acts of 1910, entitled "An Act to incor-
porate the Town of Capitol Heights, etc.," be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read
as follows:

SECTION 1. The citizens of the Town of Capitol Heights,
Prince George's County, Maryland, are hereby made a body
corporate by the name and style of "Mayor and Common Coun-
cil of Capitol Heights," and by that name may have perpetual
succession, sue and be sued, and have and use a common seal.

SEC. 2. The corporate limits of said town shall be as
defined and laid out on plat of Otway B. Zantzinger's sub-divi-
sion known as Capitol Heights, recorded in Liber J. W. B. No.
5, folios 676 and 677, of the Land Records of Prince George's
county, Maryland.

SEC. 3. The government of said town shall be vested in a
Mayor and six Common Councilmenj who at the first election
hereinafter provided for and at all succeeding elections shall be
elected as hereinafter provided. From the time this act becomes
operative until the election held on the first Monday in May,
1913, as hereinafter provided, the Mayor of said town shall
be Henry A. Holmes, the Treasurer shall be L. Johnston
Fletcher, and the six Common Councilmen thereof shall be
William H. McGinniss, Geo. A. Adams, Lyman J. Laughton.
Charles L. Sweeney, James W. Beavers, Rufus F. Gibbs, which
said persons are hereby designated to fill said respective offices,
and who shall have and exercise all the powers and duties
hereby vested in the Mayor, Treasurer and Common Council-
men respectively of said town to the same extent as though
they had been duly elected to the said respective offices in the
manner hereinafter provided for the election of such officials,
and that their term of office shall expire upon the election and