1624 ARTICLE 6.

1914, ch, 731, sec. 170.

314. The limits of said town shall be as follows:

Beginning at the foot of the east side of Tuckahoe Bridge along the
meanderings of the Tuckahoe River at mean high water mark south to
a place to be fixed and marked by the Commissioners first elected on the
land of the heirs of the late James W. Holt, about or opposite the divi-
sion line of the Protestant Episcopal Church lot and the said Holt lands
and that of the lots of Thomas B. Sparklin, east, until it intersects the
Tuckahoe Neck public road on the west side; thence along the west side
of the said road north to a point to be fixed and marked on the land of

George H. Hobbs, Jr.; thence across said road to the division of the fields
of Mary E. Fisher and others along said line east until it reaches the
southeast corner of the lot now owned by Samuel Handy, known as the
Talbot Lot; thence with said lot's line north until it reaches the Hills-
boro and Denton public road on the south side; thence west with said
public road to a point opposite the west side of the Ridgely public road;
thence along the west side of the said road to a distance of two hundred
and fifty yards from the southeast corner of the lot of W. F. Pennington,
known as the William Hackett Lot; thence west parallel with the main
street of said town of Hillsboro, extending a distance of two hundred and
fifty yards from the north of the main street of said town of Hillsboro
to the Tuckahoe River at mean high water mark; thence south along the
meanderings of the. Tuckahoe River until it reaches the place of begin-
ning; provided, that no taxes shall be levied by the Commissioners of
Hillsboro for corporate purposes upon any real estate (that which is
located upon open avenues to the depot of one hundred and eighty feet
excepted) situated in said town, umless the same is divided into lots of

one acre or less in area, or has a dwelling house or other buildings thereon,
and then not exceeding one acre of such land shall be taxed in addition
to the buildings.

1914, ch. 731, sec. 171.

315. The Government of said town shall be vested in and enforced by
three Commissioners who shall be elected by the inhabitants of said town
qualified to vote for delegates to the General Assembly; the said Commis-
sioners shall be at least twenty-five years of age and payers of taxes on
the assessed value of at least five hundred dollars' worth of property, sub-
ject to municipal taxation and shall have resided at least two years
within said town. At the election for Commissioners to be held in April,
1914, the Commissioner receiving the highest number of votes shall hold
office for a period of three years, the one receiving the next highest num-
ber of votes shall hold office for a period of two years and the one receiv-
ing the next highest number of votes shall hold office for a period of one
year, and if at said election there should be a tie between two or more
candidates with the highest number of votes, the one to hold office for
three years shall be publicly determined by lot, after due notice to the
parties interested, by the judges of election; and if at said election there