WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4747

may have and use a common seal, and possess such other incidents and
powers as attach by law to a municipal corporation, and may purchase and
hold real, personal and mixed property for the benefit of said corporation;
provided, however, that the mayor and council shall not purchase or
acquire any real estate, unless the said mayor and council shall first
provide by ordinance for said purchase, and the mode and manner of
payment therefor; and all ordinances for the purchase of real estate shall
provide for submitting the question of said purchase to the qualified
voters of the town at some regular election for the election of councilmen
of said town; and before any such ordinance shall be submitted to the
qualified voters of the town, at least four weeks' public notice shall be
given, by publication in one or more newspapers of the town, of an inten-
tion to submit said ordinance to the qualified voters of the town; and said
notice shall set forth the ordinance in full, and the mode and manner of
payment proposed; and no ordinance for the purchase of real estate shall
be of any force or validity unless it shall receive a majority of all the
votes cast at such election.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 153. 1884, ch. 58.

228. The government of said town shall be vested in a mayor and five
councilmen, to bo elected as hereinafter provided. No person elected and
qualified as mayor or councilman, or any person holding any office by
election, appointment or otherwise, under the provisions of this sub-title
of this article, or by virtue thereof, shall, during the term of his office,
be interested directly or indirectly in any contract in which the town is a
party or is interested; nor shall any such person, while holding such office,
be directly or indirectly engaged in furnishing work, labor or materials
for said town; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall
be proceeded against by indictment in the circuit court for Washington
county, and upon conviction, be fined and imprisoned, or both, in the
discretion of the court.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 154. 1884, ch. 58. 1914, ch.. 257, sec. 154.

229. The taxable limits of the City of Hagerstown are declared to be
as follows: Beginning at a stone in the north marginal line of the County
Road leading from the Hagerstown-Leitersburg Turnpike to Fiddlersburg,
said stake being 1,850 feet east of the east marginal line of said Turn-
pike, and running thence, in a northwesternly direction, with the same
bearing as that of the aforesaid north marginal line of the said County
Road 11,500 feet, thence, at right angles to the first line, and running in
a southwesternly direction, 16,000 feet, thence at right angles to the second
line and running in a southeasternly direction 11,500 feet, thence, at
right angles to the third line, and running in a northeasternly direction
16,000 feet to the point of beginning. Provided, however, that for devel-
opmental, drainage, sewerage, sanitary and police purposes the Mayor
and Council of Hagerstown shall have and exercise full power and con-
trol for a distance of one mile in every direction from said corporate limits.