1604 PRACTICE GEORGE'S COUNTY. [ART. 17.

ers of Laurel," and by that name may have perpetual succession,
sue and be sued, and have and use a common seal.

1870, ch. 260.

191. The limits of the town shall begin at a point on the
Patuxent river, a quarter of a mile below the railroad; thence
with said river to Walker's branch; thence southerly along
Walker's branch to Talbot run or Crow's branch; thence south-
easterly with said Talbot run or Crow's branch to a point on said
run one quarter of a mile beyond and across the Washington,
branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad; thence northerly in a
straight line to the place of beginning.

Ibid.

192. The commissioners are empowered, whenever requested
by a majority of the legal voters within the limits of the proposed
extension, to extend and enlarge the limits of said corporation by
having the contemplated extension surveyed and the bounds,
thereof established, a copy of which survey shall be recorded
among the records of said corporation.

1878, ch. 468.

193. The male citizens of said town, of the age of twenty-one
years and upward, who shall have resided therein for the space
of six months next preceding the first Monday in May, shall
annually elect, on that day, at the place where elections are held
in said town, five persons, legal voters of said town, who shall
have resided therein one year next preceding said election, and
who shall be assessed on the books of said town in a sum not less
than two hundred dollars, as commissioners of said town.

Ibid.

194. All elections under this charter shall be held at such
places as the commissioners may designate, after at least ten days'
public notice of the same given by them; and the judges thereof
shall be three in number, and shall be designated and appointed
by the said commissioners at least ten days prior thereto; the
said judges shall appoint two clerks, and shall keep the polls
open from two o'clock P. M. to six o'clock P. M., when they shall