DORCHESTER. COUNTY. 2257

1894, ch. 426, sec. 8.

221. All cities, towns or boroughs in which dogs are taxed by munici-
pal ordinance are exempted from the operation of this Act.

EAST NEW MARKET.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 138. 1884, ch. 520.

222. The inhabitants of East New Market are a body corporate by
the name of "The Commissioners of East New Market," and as such
shall have perpetual succession, and by that name may sue and be sued,
purchase and hold real, personal and mixed property, or dispose of the
same for the benefit of said town, and may have and use a common seal,
which they may alter at pleasure.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 139. 1884, ch. 520. 1904, ch. 82, sec. 139. 1912, ch. 413.

223. The limit of the said town shall begin at the northwest corner
of the Academy lot; thence running with the eastern side of the new
public road leading from Railroad Avenue, to the Cambridge-East New
Market public road, south 5 degrees east 625 feet to the south end of the
Creamery lot; thence with same and the north edge of the said new road
south 82 degrees east 40 feet; thence with the east side of said new road
south 10 1/2 degrees east 1,505 feet to the west side of the said Cambridge-
East New Market road; thence with the west side of said road north
67 1/2 degrees east 347 feet to a point marked by a stone, opposite where
a large cedar tree formerly stood on the opposite side of said road; thence
in the line, with where the said cedar tree formerly stood south 73 de-
grees east 2,029 feet to a stone in the line of the right of way of the Cam-
bridge and Seaford Railroad; thence north 22 degrees east 1,530 feet to
the center of said Railroad Avenue; thence still with the same course
and with the line of the property of Edwin C. Bell 906 feet; thenoe at
right angles north 68 degrees west 2,197 feet to a point in S. L. Webster's
land; and thence south 51 1/2 degrees west 980 feet to the place of begin-

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 140 1884, ch. 520. 1916, ch. 78, sec. 140.

224. There shall be five Commissioners for said town, who shall hold
office for two years from the date of their election, or until their suc-
cessors are duly elected and qualified, who shall be elected by ballot by the
qualified voters of said town, and each of whom shall be at least twenty-
five years of age and a bona fide resident of said town for at least twelve
months next preceding the date of his election.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 141. 18S4. ch. 520.

225. The male inhabitants of said town above the age of twenty-one
years, who have resided in said town for six months next preceding the
date of election, shall possess the qualifications of electors of Commis-
sioners for said town. The qualified voters of said town, on the first