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	authority as any constable may now have under the
	laws of this State.
	99. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize the corporation hereby created to	Not author- ized to issue
	issue any device, token, note, certificate or evidence	evidence o f
	of debt to be used as a currency, and the legislature	debt.
	reserves the right to amend or repeal this charter
	when the same shall be deemed advisable.
	100. The failure of the citizens of said town to
	exercise the rights and privileges granted by this
	charter, shall not operate as a repeal or forfeiture	Shall not
	thereof, but if any election shall fail to be held in	forfeit charter
	any year under this charter, the same may be held
	in any subsequent year after the time and place
	herein specified.
	TOWN OF OAKLAND.
	101. The inhabitants of the town of Oakland, in
	Garrett county, are a body corporate by the name of the Burgess and Commissioners of Oakland, and by	Body cor- porate.
	that name may sue and be sued, and have and use a
	common seal.
	102. The limits of said town shall begin at a	Limits.
	stone marked eight hundred and forty-one, said stone
	being the beginning of military lot number eight
	hundred and forty-one, and running thence north
	sixty-seven degrees, west one hundred perches, south twenty-three degrees, west two hundred perches,
	south sixty-seven degrees, east ten perches to the summit of the Hoop-pole ridge; thence with the
	summit of said ridge south sixty-seven degrees, east
	one hundred perches, north twenty-three degrees,
	east one hundred and seventeen perches ; thence to
	the place of beginning. The commissioners of the
	town may make such alterations in the corporate	Make altera-
	limits as they may deem proper, and cause the same	tions.
	to be surveyed and the boundaries thereof to be
	established, and a record thereof to be filed amongst
	the records of the corporation.
	103. The male citizens of the town twenty-one
	years of age and upwards, having resided therein six
	months, shall, on the first Monday in May, eighteen