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lars for each and every such offence, and pay all damages that
may be done to the said bridge.

CHESTERTOWN.

1880, ch. 192. 1888, ch 227.

50. The corporate limits of Chestertown are extended so as to
embrace all the territory within the following metes and bounds:
Beginning on Chester river at the eastern bounds of the town,
and the division line between the lands leased out by Washing-
ton college and the lands of Mrs. Mary R. Perkins, and running
thence in a northerly direction with said division line and the
easterly bounds of said college lands, to the intersection of Wash-
ington avenue with College avenue; thence westerly in a straight
line to the point where the public road from Chestertown to
Fairlee crosses the mill stream, the headwaters of Radcliffe creek;
thence in a southerly direction to the point of intersection of the
lands of Wm. S. Walker with the lands of the heirs of George
B. Wescott, on the public road leading from Chestertown into
Quaker Neck; and thence with the division line between said
lands to Chester river; and thence easterly, by and with Chester
river, to the beginning; provided, no taxes shall be levied by the
commissioners of Chestertown, for corporate purposes, upon any
real estate situated in the newly added portion of said town,
unless the same is divided into lots of an acre or less in area, or
has a dwelling-house or other building thereon, and then not ex-
ceeding one acre of such land shall be taxed in addition to the
buildings; and provided, no public street or alley shall be opened
by said commissioners of Chestertown, through the campus or
garden belonging and contiguous to Washington college, without
the authority and consent of the visitors of said college being
first obtained therefor.

1880, ch. 302.

51. There shall be three commissioners for Chestertown, all
of whom shall be taxpayers upon real or leasehold property in
said town, and at least thirty years of age, who shall each be elected
for a term of three years.

Ibid.

52. The male inhabitants of Chestertown above the age of
twenty-one years, who are assessed for the purpose of State and