ART. 11.] ORPHANS' COURT—POINT OF ROCKS. 1197

committed only to the almshouse, there to be kept at hard labor
for a term not exceeding three months, according to the term of
commitment.

ORPHANS' COURT.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 245.

395. The county commissioners shall annually levy on the
assessable property of the county, such sum as they deem suffi-
cient to pay the salaries of the judges of the orphans' court for
the ensuing year, and the collector shall pay the same on the
second Tuesday of August and February, annually, upon the
certificate of the register of wills for the county, showing the
amount due to each.

POINT OF ROCKS.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 247

396. The citizens of Point of Rocks are a body corporate by
the name of "The Burgess and Commissioners of Point of
Rocks," and by that name may sue and be sued, and may have
and use a common seal.

Ibid sec. 248.

397. The limits of said town for all purposes except taxation
by the laws of the corporation, shall be as follows: Commencing
at the Kanawha spring at the margin of the Potomac river, and
with said river westerly one mile; thence in a northerly direction.

with the Catoctin Mountain three-fourths of a mile, and thence

with a straight line to the place of beginning; and the taxable
limits of said town shall include all that part of the town now
improved, or which the citizens may at any time hereafter
improve.

Ibid. sec. 249.

398. The male citizens of the Point of Kocks, of the age of
twenty-one years and upwards, who have resided in said town
for six months next preceding the election, shall elect by ballot
on the first Monday in April in each year, at such place as shall
be designated by the burgess and commissioners, a burgess and
three commissioners, who shall have resided within the limits of