CARROLL COUNTY. 1737

may purchase, hold, lease, receive, sell and dispose of real, personal and
mixed property for the use and benefit of said town; and may have and use
a common seal, which may be broken or altered at pleasure.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 7, sec. 41. 1888, ch. 295. 1892, ch. 421. 1894, ch. 283, sec. 41.

64. The limits of said town shall be as follows: Beginning at the
corner on the northwest side of Baltimore and Hanover turnpike, where
the Baltimore and Harrisburg Railroad crosses said turnpike at the north
end of the said town of Hampstead, and running with said railroad south-
ward to a point south of the Houcksville Road opposite the lane running
eastward from the said turnpike on the line of the properties of Charles
Richards and Howard Kemp, and thence eastward to the centre of the said
Baltimore and Hanover turnpike, thence along said lane three hundred
feet from the centre of said turnpike, thence northward parallel with the
said turnpike to said Baltimore and Harrisburg Railroad, thence south-
westward along said railroad to the place of beginning.

1894, ch. 283, sec. 42.

65. All persons who have resided within the corporate limits of said
town for six months next preceding the election, and who are qualified to
vote for delegates for the General Assembly, shall be qualified voters of the
corporation, and entitled to vote at any corporation election held under the
provisions of this sub-title or any ordinance made in pursuance thereof;
and said voters shall elect by ballot, on the first Monday of May in every
year, at such place as shall be designated by the Mayor and Council, be-
tween two o'clock in the afternoon and six o'clock in the evening, one
person, at least twenty-five years of age, who is the owner of real estate or
leasehold property within the corporate limits of said town, and who has
resided in said town at least two years next preceding said election, mayor
of said town; and six persons, each of whom shall be at least twenty-one
years of age, and shall have resided in said town at least one year next pre-
ceding said election, and be the owner of real estate or leasehold property
within the corporate limits of said town, members of the council.

1894, ch. 283, sec. 43. 1898, ch. 441, sec. 43.

66. The Mayor shall give at least two weeks' notice of the election by
handbills posted in not less than five public places in said town, and shall
appoint three persons who are qualified at such election, judges of elec-
tion, and the said judges shall appoint a clerk, who shall record the names
of the persons voting as they vote; and each of said judges before holding
any elections, shall swear or affirm before a justice of the peace of said
Carroll County, that he will fairly and impartially discharge the duty of
judge of such election; and immediately after the close of the election said
judges shall, in the presence of such persons as may desire to witness the
same, count the ballots, and the person having the highest number of
votes for the several offices of Mayor and members of the Council, shall
be declared duly elected, and said judges shall then and there make and