796

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

seven, four hundred and eight, four hundred and nine, four hun-

dred and ten, four hundred and eleven, four hundred and twelve,

four hundred and thirteen, four hundred and fourteen, four hun-

dred and fif teen, four hundred and sixteen, four hundred and

Repeal.

seventeen, four hundred and eighteen, four hundred and nineteen,

four hundred and twenty, four hundred and twenty-one, four

hundred and twenty-two, four hundred and twenty-three, of ar-

ticle twenty-two, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,

title "Washington county," sub-title "Williamsport," be and the

same are hereby repealed and re-enacted as follows :

403. The citizens of the town of Williamsport, in Washington

Body cor-

county, are a body corporate by the name of the "Burgess and

porate.

Commissioners of Williamsport," and by that name may sue and

be sued, and have and use a common seal.

404. The bounds of said town as described on a plat thereof,

recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for Wash-

ington county, are hereby extended so as to include all the terri-

tory within the following linr'ts, beginning at low-water mark on

the right bank of the Conocoheague creek, at its confluence with

the Potomac river, and running along said bank up stream to the

stone bridge; then crossing the said creek on a line with the lower

Bounds.

side of said bridge, to the east side of the public road leading to

the said bridge; then nearly due north along the east side of the

public road leading to the stone mill, to the intersection of the

line between the lands of Victor Cashwa and the lands belonging

to the said stone mill property; -then by a straight line eastwardly

crossing the Western Maryland railroad, at a point north of the

new passenger station, and continuing between the lands of Victor

Cushwa and Charles Ardinger, and William H. Beard and Charles

Ardinger to the Williamsport and Green Castle turnpike, to the

point of intersection with a straight line covering the eastern"

boundary of said town, as it now is; then running south with said

line and along with said eastern boundary to. the stone fence on
the Boonsboro' road; then southwestwardly by a direct line to the

lower end of lock number forty-four, on the Chesapeake and Ohio

canal; then continuing the same line without variation to the

Potomac river at low-water mark, and thence up stream along the

said low-water line of the Potomac river to the place of beginning.

SEC. 405. The male citizens of Williamsport of the age of

twenty-one years, and who have resided in said town for twelve

months next preceding the election, shall annually on the first

Election

Monday in March, elect a burgess and assistant burgess and five

commissioners of said town, who shall have resided within the

town twelve months next preceding the election, and who have

during the year immediately preceding said election been assessed

and paid taxes on real or personal property in said town, and who

shall not be in arrears for taxes due the said corporation at the

time of their qualification.