.ART. 22.] LEITERSBURG. 2003

1872, ch 851.

295. The burgess and commissioners may take up and
impound any stock running at large in said town, whether
belonging to the citizens of the said town or not, under such
regulations as they may prescribe; and the sheriff of Washington
county shall receive and safe keep in the jail of said county, all
persons who shall be committed by the burgess and commissioners
to said jail for a breach or a violation of any of the ordinances of
the said corporation, according to the time of commitment, and
in the same manner and under the same regulations as persons
committed for a violation of the laws of this State.

LEITERSBURG.

P. L L, (1860,) art. 21, sec. 209.

296. The citizens of Leitersburg, in Washington county, are a
body corporate by the name of " The Burgess and Commissioners
of Leitersburg," and by that name may sue and be sued, and may
have and use a common seal.

Ibid sec 210.

297. The bounds of the town of Leitersburg shall be as
follows: Commencing at a poplar tree, on the road leading from
Leitersburg to Smithburg, near a stable belonging to Jeremiah
Slick; thence running with a straight line to a stable near the
house occupied by Daniel Lawmanson in the year eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-three; thence with a straight line to a spring on or
near a lot belonging to Nathan McDowell, on the road leading
from Leitersburg to Green Castle; thence with a straight line to
a blacksmith shop occupied by G. W. Lantz in said year, belong-
ing to George Poe; thence with a straight line to the beginning.

Ibid. sec. 311.

298. The male citizens of Leitersburg, of the age of twenty-
one years and upwards, who have resided twelve months in said
town next preceding the election, shall elect by ballot, on the first
Monday in April in each year, a burgess, assistant burgess and
three commissioners, of the age of not less than twenty-one years,
who shall have resided in said town twelve months next preceding
the election.