ART. 23.] DELMAR. 2049

purchase and hold real, personal or mixed property, and sell and
dispose of the same for the benefit of the town.

1888, ch. 167.

22. The bounds and limits of said town are as follows: Begin-
ning at the point where the New York, Philadelphia and Nor-
folk railroad intersects the line dividing the State of Maryland
from the State of Delaware; thence running easterly by and with
said line two thousand five hundred and ten feet; thence south
one degree, west seven hundred and eighty-two feet; thence
north eighty-five degrees and fifteen minutes, west two thousand
six hundred and nineteen feet to the said railroad; thence south
nine degrees and fifteen minutes, west one hundred and fifty-five
feet; thence north eighty-five degrees and fifteen minutes, west
nine hundred and fifty-three feet; thence north nine degrees and
fifteen minutes, east one thousand and fifty-three feet, to inter-
sect the said State line; thence by and with the same, nine hun-
dred and forty-seven feet, to the first beginning.

Ibid.

23. The legal voters of the town of Delmar who have re-
sided within the above corporate limits six months preceding the
election shall, on the second Tuesday of April, in every second
year, accounting from the year eighteen hundred and eighty-
eight, elect by ballot three persons to be commissioners of said
town, to hold their office for two years from the date of their
election, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and
the service of said commissioners shall be gratuitous and without

pay.

Ibid.

24. The judges of election shall be appointed by the commis-
sioners ; they shall appoint a clerk; the polls shall be opened at
nine o'clock A. M. and closed at three o'clock P. M., when the
ballots shall be carefully counted and the report filed with the
commissioners of said town, and certificates of election granted
by the judges to the commissioners so elected.

Ibid.

25. The judges of election shall, before proceeding to hold an
election, take oath before some justice of the peace of Wicomico

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