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the duty of said commissioners to lodge a complaint before one of the
justices of the peace of said county, who shall forthwith summon the
owner or other person so neglecting or refusing and upon being satisfied
after an examination into the facts of the existence of the said disease
in the trees or fruit as charged by said commissioners, it shall be the duty
of said justice of the peace to forthwith issue an order to said commis-
sioners, or one of them, or to a constable of said county, to destroy said
trees or fruit, and for the purpose of destroying the same, it shall be law-
ful for said commissioners or constable to enter upon any premises in said
county, and seize said diseased trees or fruit wherever found, and have
the same destroyed by fire or otherwise.

1890, ch. 26, sec. 6.

193. It shall be the duty of said justice of the peace in passing the
order as provided in the preceding section, to fix such fine and penalty as
he may see fit, not exceeding the sum of ten dollars for each offense, and
all costs incident to or attending such proceedings, and upon failure to-
pay said fine and costs, to commit said person to the county jail for a term
not exceeding thirty days.

1890, ch. 26, sec. 7.

194. "Yellows" is hereby declared to be a contagious disease affecting
the constitution and vital growth of the tree and manifested by the fol-
lowing symptoms or one of them: 1. A premature ripening of the fruit
which is flavorless and with the color thereof not solid but mottled or
variegated. 2. Wiry growth of shoots from the trunk or branches of the
tree.

FUNKSTOWN.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 245. 1870, ch. 452. 1894, ch. 399, sec. 245.

195. The inhabitants of the town of Funkstown, in Washington coun-
ty, are a body corporate, by the name of the Burgess and Commissioners
of Funkstown, and by that name may sue and be sued, and may have and
use a common seal.

1894, ch. 399, sec. 245A. 1927, ch. 262.

196. The corporate limits of the town of Funkstown are hereby de-
clared as follows:

Beginning at the east edge of the south abutment of the State highway
bridge over the Antietam Creek at Funkstown, and running thence along
the southeast (left) bank of the Antietam Creek in a northeasterly direc-
tion a distance of seven hundred and ten feet to the west marginal line
of Antietam Street; thence still along said creek on the south bank (left)
thereof in a southeasterly direction a distance of nine hundred and forty
feet; thence in a northeasterly direction a distance of one hundred and

*Formerly known as Jerusalem.