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loss by fire, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between said Mayor
and Councilmen and said grantees, their successors, heirs or assigns, and
for such length of time as may be so agreed upon, up to the time of the
purchase of said plant by said town.

1894, ch. 569, sec. 44.

427. Said Mayor and Councilmen are hereby authorized and empow-
ered to levy and collect a special tax on the assessable property of said
town sufficient to pay said grantees of said franchise, their successors,
heirs or assigns, such sum or sums as they may contract to pay for public
fire hydrants under the provisions of the preceding section, and the said
taxes so levied shall be a lien upon property, and shall be collected in the
same manner as are the taxes for the general purposes of said town.

1894, ch. 569, sec. 45.

428. And if said Mayor and Councilmen shall exercise the power in
Sections 425, 426 and 427, herebefore granted them, to grant the owners
of a private system of water supply exclusive rights in said town, as there-
in provided, then from and after the grant of said exclusive rights and
franchises, down to the time of the termination of the same, the said
Mayor and Councilmen shall not build or construct any public system of
water works or water supply for said town, as provided in Sections 419-
424 of this Article, it being the intention of this act to give said Mayor
and Councilmen the right to provide for a system of water supply in
cither one of said two methods in said act and this act provided, but not
to give the right to exercise both powers at the same time.

LUKE.

1922, ch. 73, sec. 1.

429. The citizens residing within the area more particularly herein-
after defined are hereby made a body corporate, by the name and style
of the Mayor and Commissioners of Luke, and by that name may have
perpetual succession, sue and be sued, have and use a common seal and
exercise all of the privileges of a body corporate.

1922, ch. 73, sec. 2.

430. The corporate limits of said town shall be as follows:
Beginning for the same at a concrete monument standing on the third
]ine of a tract of land called "Taken Up Thrice," it being also on the west
side of the Western Maryland Railroad, 33 feet distant from the center
line thereof, and about 400 feet northeast of the tipple at Devon Mine
No. 2, and running thence reversing the lines of said tract. "Taken Up
Thrice," (1) north 57 degrees, 52 minutes west 1,077.7 feet to a con-
crete monument, (2) south 55 degrees, 33 minutes west 863 feet to a
concrete monument, (3) north 45 degrees, 00 minutes west 662.5 feet to
a planted stone No. 3, standing at the beginning of said tract, "Taken