ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 91

	CHAPTER 118.
	AN ACT to incorporate the town of Brookeville, in Montgomery
	county.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
	That the citizens of the town of Brookeville, in Montgomery
	county, be and they are hereby created a body corporate by the	Corpora-
	name of "the commissioners of Brookeville," with all the favors	tion.
	and privileges of a body politic and corporate, and by said corporate
	name may have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, plead and
	be impleaded in any court of law or equity in said county, and may
	have or use a common seal.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the corporate limits .of said town
	shall be as follows : beginning on the east side of the Brookeville
	and Washington turnpike at the end of the dividing line between
	the lands of John W. Metz and Mrs. Caroline Edmondstone; then
	westerly through the lands of William B. Miller and Elisha J.
	Hall, to a large branch willow tree on the west bank of meadow
	branch; then with the east bank of said branch to its intersection	Limita-
	with reedy branch; thence with the east side of reedy branch to
	the point where it is crossed by the road leading to the farm of
	Mrs. Catharine Riggs; then with the east side of back street to its
	intersection with spring branch; then with said branch through
	the land of the protestant episcopal rectory, and Mrs. Caroline
	Edmondstone to the dividing line between the lands of said Caro-
	line Edmondstone and John W. Metz; thence with said line to
	the place of beginning.
	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the citizens of said town having
	resided therein six months previous to any election, shall on the first
	Monday in May, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety, or as soon
	thereafter as conveniently may be, and on the first Monday in May in every second year thereafter, elect three commissioners of Brooke- ville, to serve for two years and until their successors shall be elected
	and qualified; the commissioners must be substantial citizens resi-	Commis- sioners.
	dent in said corporate limits, and must have resided therein for at
	least six months next preceding their election, must be owners of
	real estate within said corporate limits, and must continue to reside within said corporate limits during their term of office; they shall receive no pay for the services, except the president, who shall re-
	ceive the fees hereinafter allowed.
	SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the three commissioners elected
	shall chose one of their number as president, and all vacancies in	Vacancies.
	the board of commissioners shall be filled by an election to be held
	after ten day's notice given by the remaining commissioners.
	SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the commissioners shall meet in
	some convenient place in said town on or before the first Monday	To meet.