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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

straight line northeast with the extreme southern boundary

of George Shepherd's land, thence due northeast with the

line of George Shepherd's property across the Wye Neck

public road, down said road toward the town until it reaches

the thorn hedge on the lower line of the farm of Hiram G.

Dudley, and following the boundary line of said farm until

it reaches the public road leading to Centreville and along

said road toward Centreville until it reaches the beginning

point on the Old Wharf Lane northwest and thence to the

point of beginning, and it shall be the duty of said "The

Commissioners of Queenstown" immediately after their

election and qualification to have said lines surveyed by

the county surveyor of Queen Anne's County with full

authority to correct any inaccuracies in this description and

to have same plated, which survey and plat when made

and certified to and filed in the office of the clerk of the

Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County shall be conclusive

as to the location and limits of said town.

518 C. All persons of twenty-one years of age and

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upwards, owning property in said town, or who shall have

officers.

resided in said town for the period of six months previous to

any election for town commissioners, being of twenty-one

years of age and upwards and who shall be qualified to vote

for delegates to the General Assembly of Maryland, shall be

entitled to vote for town commissioners, provided, they are

taxpayers on property located or held in said town, and any

resident property holder and taxpayer in said town of

twenty -one years and upwards, qualified to vote for delegates

to the General Assembly as aforesaid, shall be qualified to

hold the office of town commissioner, and the first election

for town commissioners under this law shall be held on the

first Monday in June, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, or

as soon thereafter as may be convenient, and annually there-

after, after ten days' notice of the time and place for holding

the same, at which said election three persons shall be

elected as town commissioners cf said town to hold office

for one year from the date of their election and until their

successors are elected and qualified, the first election under

this law shall be held under the supervision and control of

the judges of election of whom the chief judge shall be a

resident justice of the peace of said town, with two qualified

residents and voters of said town to be appointed by said

justice of the peace as associate judges, all of whom shall

take and subscribe on oath to fairly and impartially dis-

charge the duties of said office, and all succeeding elections

under the supervision and control of three judges to be

chosen and appointed by the retiring commissioners of said