746 CARROLL COUNTY. [ART. 7.

and mixed property, and dispose of the same for the use and
benefit of the said town, and may have and use a common seal,
which may be altered at pleasure.

1880, ch. 434.

168. The corporate bounds of said town shall be as kid down
and described on the plat thereof, recorded in the office of the
clerk of the circuit court for Carroll county; provided, however;
that for all sanitary and police purposes, the mayor and common
council shall have and may exercise full authority and control
for one-half mile in every direction beyond the present or future,
corporate limits.

Ibid.

169. All persons who have resided in the said town of Union
Bridge for one year, and who are qualified to vote for delegates
to the general assembly, and all other male adults who hold real
estate in said town of the value of live hundred dollars or more,
shall elect by ballot on the first Monday in April in each and
every year, one person for mayor and five persons for common
councilmen, all of whom shall be at least twenty-five years of
age, and shall have resided in said town two years previous to
the day of the election, and who shall each be the owner in his own
right, of real or personal estate in said town assessed at not less
than five hundred dollars.

Ibid.

170. All elections shall be held and conducted as shall be from
time to time directed by the laws and ordinances of the said cor-
poration not inconsistent with the provisions of this sub-title of
this article.

Ibid.

171. The mayor and common councilmen so elected shall
qualify in accordance with the code of public general laws, and
shall each hold the office to which he has been elected, for one
year from the third Monday in April next ensuing his election,
and until his successor shall be elected and qualified; and a failure
to qualify within two weeks after his election shall be deemed a
refusal on the part of the party so failing, to accept the office to
which he has been elected.