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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

use a common seal, and purchase and hold real, personal or

mixed property, and sell and dispose of the same for the

benefit of the town.

SEC. 73. The bounds and limits of said town are as fol-

lows : Beginning in the middle of the turnpike east of the

Limits of

town, and at a point south nine degrees forty minutes, east

town,

thirty feet distant from a stone on the north side of the

turnpike marked "82 M. to B.," running first north nine

degrees and forty minutes, west sixty poles to a stone

marked "No. 2;" second, south eighty degrees twenty

minutes west, parallel with the lower end of the main

street of Clearspring two hundred poles to a stone marked

"No. 3; " thence third, south nine degrees forty minutes,

east one hundred and fifty poles to a stone marked " No.

4; " thence fourth, north eighty degrees twenty minutes, east

two hundred poles to a stone marked "No. 5; " thence fifth,

nine degrees forty -minutes, west ninety poles to the place

of beginning.

Election.

SEC. 74. The male citizens of said town of the age of

twenty-one years and upwards, having resided therein for

the space of six months next preceding the first Monday in

May next, on that day, and on the first Monday in May in

each and every year thereafter, be authorized to elect one

burgess, one assistant burgess and three commissioners for

said town, said commissioners to be owners of real estate

therein ; all persons elected shall have resided within the

limits of said town for at least two years next preceding the

election. The services of said commissioners shall be

gratuitous and without pay.

SEC. 75. Jacob Sword, John M. Gray bill and John H.

Anderson of said town, are hereby empowered to act as

judges of the first election for said burgess, assistant bur-

gess and commissioners, who shall keep the polls open from

Judges of

two o'clock p. m. until six o'clock p. m., and the said judges

Election

shall make returns under their hands and seals of the per-

sons elected, to the clerk of the Circuit Court for Wash-

ington County, who shall issue certificates to the persons

so elected ; and all subsequent elections shall be held and

conducted in such manner and at such place as shall from

time to time be directed by the by-laws of the corporation,

not inconsistent with this charter ; and if any person so

elected as burgess, assistant burgess or commissioner shall

refuse to serve as such, or his place shall become vacant by

death, disqualification or otherwise, an election to fill such

vacancy shall be held, of which ten days' notice shall be

given ; and in case of a tie between any persons voted tor

at any election under this act, the clerk of the court for