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twenty-two and one-half (22 1/2) degrees west nineteen hundred and
forty-seven (1,947) feet to a set stone near Dufiield's house; then north
eighty-three and one-half (83 1/2) degrees west seventeen hundred and
eighty-two (1,782) feet 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.

1912, ch. 770, sec. 93.

166. The citizens of said town of La Plata having the qualification
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 election, as the Town Commissioners of La
Plata, to serve for one year, or until their successors shall be elected and
qualified. Said Town Commissioners shall receive no pay for their
services as such, and they shall continue to reside in said town of La
Plata during their term of office; provided, however, that there shall be no
election of Town Commissioners in the month of May, 1912, but that
Philip E. Sasseer, William M. Howard and Thomas R. Farrall shall be
and constitute the Town Commissioners of La Plata from and after the
first day of June, 1912, until the first day of June, 1913, subject to the
provisions of this Article or any part or amendments thereof, provided for
the Town Commissioners elected for all other times than as herein in this
section set forth, with power to fill vacancies occurring among their own
number, as elsewhere in this Article set forth for the Commissioners
elected as herein otherwise provided.

1912, ch. 770, sec. 94.

167. The Town Commissioners shall annually on or before the first
Monday in April, 1913, give notice by hand bills posted in conspicuous
places in said town of La Plata or by publication in some newspaper or
newspapers published in said town or by both hand bills posted as aforesaid
and by publication as aforesaid of the election to be held for Town Com-
missioners of La Plata in that year, naming the house or place to be selected
by them at which said election shall be held, and the hours the polls shall
be open and closed respectively, and they shall, at least ten days before
such election, appoint three persons as judges, who shall conduct the
election; the polls shall be opened at 2 o'clock P. M., and closed at 6
o'clock P. M., if any of such judges of election shall refuse or decline or
be unable to act as such the Town Commissioners shall fill the vacancy.
Should any of such judges fail to appear at the time and place for opening
the polls and holding the election the remaining judge or judges shall
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