1592 PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. [ART. 17.

1878, ch. 453.

150. One-half of all such fines shall be paid to the informer
and the other half to the county commissioners, for the use of
the public roads.

HYATTVILLE.

1886, ch. 424.

151. The citizens of the town of Hyattville, in Prince
George's county, are a body corporate by the name of "The
Commissioners of Hyattville," with all the powers and privileges
of a body politic and corporate, and by said corporate name may
have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, plead and be im-
pleaded in any court of law or equity, and have and use a
common seal, and purchase and hold real, personal and mixed
property, and sell and dispose of the same for the benefit of the
town.

Ibid.

152. The limits of the town shall be as follows: commencing
at the junction of the eastern branch of the Potomac river and
the northwest branch, and following the northwest branch to
Carlton's dam; thence in a direct line to a stone on the south
side of a public road leading to Bladensburg; thence in a direct
line to the western extremity of Avalon avenue; thence with
Avalon avenue to the western boundary of the Washington and
Baltimore turnpike; thence with the western boundary of said
turnpike southerly to its intersection with the southern line of
Riversdale extended; thence with said line easterly to the "Wash-
ington branch of the Baltimore arid Ohio railroad; thence with
the easterly boundary of said railroad right of way southerly to
the Alexandria junction of said railroad; thence with the eastern
boundary of the right of way of said Alexandria branch road to
the east branch of the eastern branch of the Potomac river;
thence with said east branch and adjacent limits of the corpora-
tion of Bladensburg, to the place of beginning.

Ibid.

153. The male citizens of said town, of the age of twenty-one
years and upwards, having resided therein six months next pre-
ceding any election held hereunder, and who are qualified to rote