ART. 7.] FISH—HAMPSTEAD. 709

1874, ch. 79.

39. If the owners of said dams shall fail to comply with the
provisions of the preceding section they shall be liable, upon con-
viction thereof by summary process before any justice of the
peace of this State, in the county in which said dam or dams is
or are situated, to a penalty of not less than fifty nor more than
one hundred dollars, five dollars to the informer and the balance
to the county commissioners of such county, for school purposes.

HAMPSTEAD.

1868, ch. 295.

40. The inhabitants of the town of Hampstead, Carroll county,
are made a body corporate by the name and style of " The Mayor
and Council of Hampstead," and by that name shall have per-
petual succession; may sue and be sued; may purchase, hold,
sell and dispose of real, personal and mixed property for the use
and benefit of said town, and may have and use a common seal,
which may be broken or altered at pleasure.

Ibid.

41. The limits of said town shall be as follows: beginning at
the comer on the northwest side of the Baltimore and Hanover
turnpike, where the Baltimore and Harrisburg railroad crosses
said turnpike at the north end of the village of Hampstead, and
running with said railroad southward to a point south of the
Houcksville road opposite the lane running eastward from said
turnpike on the line of the properties of Charles Richards and
Howard Kemp, and thence eastward to the centre of the Hanover
turnpike, along said lane three hundred feet from the centre of
said turnpike; thence northward parallel with said Baltimore and
Hanover turnpike to said Baltimore and Harrisburg railroad;
thence southwestward along said railroad to the place of begin-
ning.

Ibid.

42. The mayor and council of Hampstead, shall be seven in
number, and shall be elected on the first Monday in May annually,
accounting from the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.
All male inhabitants of said town, citizens of the United States,