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(9) South 78° 00' East 370 feet to a point near the Old Potomac Coal
Company tipple and running with same course along the Old Potomac
Coal Company tram road.

(10) South 78° East 775 feet to a cucumber tree.

(11) North 28° 30' East 500 feet to a large white oak tree, marked
with 12 notches, at the end of the 11th line of the present boundary of the
Town of Barton, and running with the following lines of said present
boundary:

(12) North 5° 30' East 333.8 feet to a hickory tree marked with 12
notches.

(13) North 24° 30' East 536 feet to a stake near a large white oak
stump.

(14) North 30° 12' East 406.5 feet to a beech tree marked with 12
notches.

(15) North 19° 00' West 895 feet to the place of beginning, true
meridian courses and horizontal distances being used throughout.

The property within the said lines to be subject to such taxes and such
changes as may be deemed necessary by the said the Mayor and Com-
missioners of Barton or a majority of them, to support and maintain the
expense which may at any time be incurred in the government and im-
provement of said town.

1918, ch. 328, sec. 4.

13. The male citizens of the Town of Barton aforesaid, of the age of
21 (Twenty-one) years and upwards, who being citizens of the United
States have resided in said town for and during a period of six months
next preceding the first Monday in June in each year at such place or
places as may be designated by The Mayor and Commissioners of Barton
for holding elections in said Town, are authorized to elect four commis-
sioners for said town who have resided in said town for a period of at
least one (1) year preceding said election; also one person to serve as
Mayor and one to serve as Clerk of said town and each of whom shall
likewise have resided in said town for a period of at least one (1) year
preceding their election.

The Commissioners elected under this Act shall serve for one and two
(1 and 2) years respectively or until their successors are elected and
qualified, and it is hereby provided that the two commissioners receiving
the highest number of votes at the first election to be held under the pro-
visions of this Act shall be elected for two years and the other two shall
be elected for one year, and at each election thereafter two (2) Commis-
sioners shall be elected for a term of two years. The Clerk and the Mayor
to be elected under the provisions of this Act, shall, after they have quali-
fied, hold their respective offices for a period of two years or until their
successors are elected and qualified.