2018 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 22.

succession, may sue and be sued, may have and use a common
seal, and possess such other incidents and powers as attach by law
to a municipal corporation, and may purchase and hold real,
personal and mixed property for the benefit of said corporation;
provided, however, that the burgess and commissioners shall not
purchase or acquire any real estate unless the said burgess and
commissioners shall first provide by ordinance for said purchase,
and the mode and manner of payment therefor; and all ordi-
nances for the purchase of real estate shall provide for the sub-
mission of the question of said purchase to the qualified voters of
the town at some regular election for the election of burgess,
assistant burgess, and three commissioners of said town; such
ordinance, before being submitted to the qualified voters of the
town, shall be posted in at least three of the public places of said
town for four weeks previous to its submission to the qualified
voters of said town; and no ordinance for the purchase of real
estate shall be of any force or validity unless it shall receive a
majority of the votes cast at such election.

1888, ch. 313.

363. The government of said town shall be vested in a burgess,
assistant burgess and three commissioners, to be elected as here-
after provided.

Ibid.

364. The taxable limits of the town of Smithsburg are hereby
declared to be as follows: Beginning on Meisner's Hill, on the
public road leading from Smithsburg to Leitersburg, at a point
on the west side of said road, the same being the northeast corner
of the lot of ground conveyed by Samuel Meisner to Edward
Clark, and the eastern terminus of the line dividing said lot of
ground from the land recently purchased by said Edward Clark,
from H. W. Lyday, and running thence south seventy-three and
one-half degrees, east one hundred and eighteen and one-half
perches; south eighteen and one-half degrees, east twenty-one
and sixty-four hundredths perches; south sixteen and three-fourth
degrees, east fifty-six and twelve hundredths perches; south sixty-
two degrees, west eighty-seven and sixteen hundredths perches;
north seventy-two and one-half degrees, west fifty-one and twenty-
eight hundredths perches; thence north thirty-eight and three-
fourths degrees, west thirty-three and four-tenths perches; north.