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next section, have a lien upon such grain for the value of his services in
threshing the same from the date of the commencement of the threshing.

1914, ch. 514, sec. 2. 1918 Code, sec. 733.

760. Any person entitled to a lien under this subtitle shall, within ten

days after the threshing is completed, file in the office of the clerk of the

court of the county in which the grain was grown, a statement in writing
verified by oath, showing the amount and quantity of grain threshed, the
price agreed upon for threshing the same, the name for whom the threshing
was done and a description of the land upon which the grain was grown.
Unless the person entitled to the lien shall file such statement within the
time aforesaid, he shall be deemed to have waived his right thereto.

1914, ch. 514, sec. 3. 1918 Code, sec. 734.

761. Such lien shall have priority over all other liens and encum-
brances upon such grain.

THURMONT.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 312. 1894, ch. 16. 1918 Code, sec. 735.

762. The citizens of the village formerly known as Mechanicstown,
Frederick county, are created a body politic by the name of "The Com-
missioners of Thurmont," with all the privileges of a body corporate, and

as such shall have succession, and by their corporate name may sue and
be sued, plead and be impleaded, grant, receive and do all other acts as
natural persons, and may purchase and hold real, personal and mixed
property or dispose of the same for the benefit of said village, and to
have and use a common seal, which they may change at pleasure.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, aec. 313. 1918, ch. 193, sec. 313. 1918 Code, sec. 736.

1920, ch. 396.

763. The male citizens of said town of the age of twenty-one years

and upwards, being citizens of the United States, who shall have resided
in said town for and during the priod of six months preceding, shall elect,
by ballot, on the fourth Monday in April, 1918, at the usual place of hold-
ing elections, in said town, five Commissioners, one of whom shall be
designated as president and who shall be elected for one year; two Com-
missioners to be elected for a term of two years, and two Commissioners
to be elected for a period of one year, and annually thereafter on the
fourth Monday in April there shall be elected by said voters at the usual
place of election, three Commissioners, one of whom shall be designated

as president of the Board and shall be elected for one year, and two Com-
missioners who shall be elected for two years, who shall have resided
within the corporate limits of said town, and who shall have been a tax-
payer for one year next preceding the election. Said Commissioners

shall hold office until their successors shall have been duly elected and

qualified.

*Ch. 112, 1927, authorized Thurmont to issue $20,000 for public improvements.