696 LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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CHAPTER 497.
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AN ACT to incorporate the town of Laytonsville in Mont-
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gomery County.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Corpora-
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Maryland, That the citizens of the town of Laytonsville,
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tion.
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in Montgomery County, be and they are hereby constituted
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a body corporate by the name of the " Commissioners of
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Laytonsville," and by that name may sue and be sued, and
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have and use a common seal.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the coporate limits of
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Corporate
limits.
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said town shall be as follows : Beginning on the south side
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of Laytonsville at a point where the Olney road intersects
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the road leading from Laytousville to Gaithersburg, thence
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by a straight line, in a northeasterly direction, through the
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lands of H. B. Penn, H. Weeks, T. L. Bell, Joseph Simp-
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son and U. H. Griffith to the summit of stone quarry hill on
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the road leading from Laytonsville to Unity ; thence by a
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straight line in a northwesterly direction, through the
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lands of U. H. Griffith and W. B. Mobley, to a point on
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the road leading from Laytonsville to Damascus, marked by
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a gate just north of the house occupied by B. Taylor ;
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thence by a straight line in a southwesterly direction,
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through the lands of W. B. Mobley, J. M. Gue and J. G.
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Warfield to the summit of the hill west of the lane leading
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to J. G. Warfield's dwelling house on the road leading
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from Laytonsville to Goshen ; thence by a straight line in
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a southeasterly direction through the lands of G. E.
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Gaither and E. O. Brown to the place of beginning.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the male citizens of
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Commis-
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Laytonsville of the age of twenty-one years and upward,
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sioners.
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who have resided in said town for six months next preced-
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ing the election, shall on the first Monday in May, annu-
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ally elect three freeholders who have resided in said town
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for six months next preceding said election, as commis-
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sioners of Laytonsvile, to serve for one year or until their
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successors shall be elected and qualified. They shall receive
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no pay for their services.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the three Commissioners
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President.
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shall, at their first meeting after an election, elect one of
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