FREDERICK COUNTY. 2587

point, north fifty-nine degrees west two thousand and nine hundred and
seventy-nine and one-half feet to the middle of a public road leading from.
Middletown to Harmony; thence by and with the middle of said public
road north sixteen and one-half degrees east fifty feet; thence leaving
said road, north eighty-three degrees west sixteen hundred and ninety
feet to a stake in Joshua H. Main's lot near the dividing line between
him and Eliza Brady; thence south seventy-two and one-half degrees,
west six hundred and five feet to a stake on Eliza Brady's land, north
forty-five degrees west seven hundred and one and one-half feet to a stake
on Eliza Brady's land aforesaid; thence south forty-five degrees west
three hundred feet to the place of beginning; and the police powers of
said corporation shall extend to the distance of one-half mile in all direc-
tions beyond said taxable limits.

1896, ch. 96, sec. 350. 1918, ch. 107, sec. 353. 1918 Code, sec. 520.
528. The male citizens of Middletown at the age of twenty-one years
and upwards, who shall have resided within the taxable limits of said
town for twelve months next preceding the election, shall elect by ballot
on the first Monday of April annually a Burgess and five Commissioners
who shall have resided within the said town for twelve months next pre-
ceding the election; the said Burgess shall receive the sum of twenty-five
dollars ($25.00) and each of the said five Commissioners the sum of
fifteen dollars ($15.00) as compensation for their respective services, to
be paid annually out of the funds of said Municipal Corporation. The
Burgess of said town shall, at least two weeks before the date of said
election in each year, issue a call for a Nominating Convention, to be
composed of the male residents of said town who may attend the same
and who shall be entitled to vote at the coming election, said Nominating
Convention to be held at some public place in said town to be designated
by the Burgess, and notice of which shall be published in the Valley Reg-
ister, or some other newspaper published in said town at least four days
prior to the time of the holding of said Convention, giving the time and
place thereof, which said convention shall be held, not later than one
week prior to the date of the election. Said Convention shall nominate
not less than one nor more than two candidates for Burgess, and not less
than five nor more than ten candidates for Commissioners, to be voted
upon at said election. It shall be the duty of the Register of said town
to have prepared for said election a ballot to be voted thereat, containing
the names of the persons so nominated. Every aspirant for the office of
Burgess and every aspirant for the Office of Commissioner in said town
who shall not have been nominated at said Convention, may file with the
Register, not later than four days before the election, nominating papers
for the office or offices for which they may be aspirants, in writing, signed
by at least forty of the qualified voters of said town, and no signature
shall be counted if it shall appear upon the nomination papers of more
than one candidate for the office of Burgess and more than five candidates
for the office of Commissioner. The nomination papers of such person