588 MONTGOMERY COUNTY. [ART. 15.

1867, c. 174, s. 1. Incorporated, powers and privileges. Ibid. 9 2. Limits of town,

POOLESVILLE. 1867, c. 174- enacts the following: 27. The citizens of the town of Poolesville, in Montgomery county, are a body corporate by the name of the commissioners for Poolesville, and by that name may have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, and have and use a common seal. 28. The limits of said town shall commence at the end of G. W. Spates' lot on the public road leading to Rockville, running so as to include said lot, and Samuel Cator's house and lot, and thence running with the outside limits of the lots as laid down in the plot of the said town, so as to include Samuel C. Young's house and lot, thence with a line so as to include W. D. Poole's house and lot, fronting on the main street, and thence crossing the said street so as to include William Metzgar's houses and lots, and thence running so as to include J. O. Merchant's house and lot, thence with a line so as to include all the lots on the south side of the Rockville road to the end of T. K. Hall's lots, thence with the said road to the beginning.

Ibid s. 1. Election of commissioners Ibid a. 4. President, vacancies, &c.

29. All white male citizens above the age of twenty-one years, living in Montgomery county, owning property in Poolesville, and all white citi- zens who have resided in said town six months, shall, on the first Monday in May, and annually thereafter on the same day, elect five commissioners, who shall be tax-payers in said town, and who have resided twelve months and are qualified to vote at said election. 30. When the election shall be held for commis- sioners of this corporation, one of the number to be elected shall be voted for as president of said com- missioners, and all vacancies in the commissioners shall be filled by an election held after ten days' notice, given by the remaining commissioners.