1956 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 22.

1884, ch 58.

153. The government of said town shall be vested in a mayor
and five councilmen, to be elected as hereinafter provided. No
person elected and qualified as mayor or councilman, or any per-
son holding any office by election, appointment or otherwise,
under the provisions of this sub-title of this article, or by virtue
thereof, shall, during the term of his office, be interested directly
or indirectly in any contract in which the town is a party or ia
interested; nor shall any such person, while holding such office,
be directly or indirectly engaged in furnishing work, labor or
materials for said town; and any person violating the provisions
of this section shall be proceeded against by indictment in the
circuit court for Washington county, and upon conviction, be
fined and imprisoned, or both, in the discretion of the court.

Ibid.

154. The taxable limits of the town of Hagerstown are
declared to be as follows: Beginning at a stone marked "H,"
standing near the west margin of South Potomac street extended,
and south of and near the stone culvert over the Marsh run, said
stone being also the beginning place of a former survey of Hag-
erstown, made July twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-
five, and recorded in liber number seventy-three, folios four
hundred and seventy-seven, et cetera, of the land record books of
Washington county; and running thence south three degrees west
four hundred and eighty-three feet, south thirty-one and a half
degrees west fifteen hundred and eighty-two feet, along the
middle of the turnpike road leading to Sharpsburg; thence along
the south margin of Rose Hill cemetery, south fifty-eight and
one-half degrees east eight hundred and fifty-eight feet, to the
southeast corner thereof; thence along the east side thereof, north
thirty-one and one-half degrees east thirteen hundred and eighteen
feet; thence north four and one-half degrees west three hundred
and sixty-six feet; thence north eighty-eight and one-half degrees
east (crossing the turnpike road leading to Funkstown) twenty-five
hundred and fifty-seven feet; thence north fourteen and one-quar-
ter degrees, east five hundred and forty-eight feet, to the inter-
section of the northeast line of the road leading from the east end
of east Antietam street to John E. Rowland's mill, with the west
line of a road leading northward to the Cavetown turnpike; thence