4840 ARTICLE 22.

Plant and a majority of the stockholders of the Washington County
Water Company shall approve the sale of said plant, the sale and pur-
chase of said plant shall thereupon become binding upon both parties
upon the terms and subject to the provisions of this Act, and the Mayor
and Council of Hagerstown shall, upon due notice of the result of said
election, and of the action of said stockholders, proceed under this Act and
forthwith carry out its provisions so far as the same may be necessary
to consummate the purchase of said Water Plant.*

1927, ch. 343.

477. The rates, rents and charges for the use and service of sewers,
drains and water as determined and 'charged by the Mayor and Council
of Hagerstown are hereby declared to be and made liens upon the prop-
erty used or served by said sewers, drains or water, and that the same
shall be collected as are municipal taxes.

1920, oh. 137.

478. The coupon bonds issued by the Washington County Water Com-
pany on its plant prior to the date of the purchase of said plant by
the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, to wit: the sum of three hundred
and forty-five thousand dollars issued under a mortgage by the Wash-
ington County Water Company recorded in Liber 125, folio 55, one of the
Land Records of Washington County, are hereby exempt from county and
municipal taxation.

HANCOCK.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 222. 1S78, ch. 241. 1906, ch. 315, sec. 222.

479. The inhabitants of Hancock, in Washington county, are created
a corporation by the name of the burgess and commissioners of Hancock,
and by that name shall have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued,
may have and use a common seal and possess such other incidents and
powers as attaches by law to municipal corporations.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 223. 1906, ch. 315, sec. 223.

480. The bounds of said town as described on a plat thereof, recorded
in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for Washington county,
are hereby extended so as to include all the territory within the following
limits: Beginning at the intersection of the northeast corner of the acque-
duct under the Chesapeake and Ohio canal with the east edge of the water
of Little Tonoloway creek, and running thence down the berm bank of the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal two hundred and sixty-three perches to a
planted stone on the berm bank of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, and
in what is called Prey's hollow; thence leaving the said Chesapeake and
Ohio canal and running up said Prey's hollow, passing two sycamore trees
standing on each side of the old national turnpike, north thirty-five

*Sec. 16, ch. 58, 1918, repealed all Acts inconsistent therewith. The Act was ap-
proved as required by sec. 14 of said Act.