JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 613

CHAPTER 397.
AN ACT to incorporate the town of Gaithersburg,
in Montgomery county.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the citizens of the town of
Gaithersburg, in Montgomery county, be and they	Town created
are hereby created a body corporate by the name of a	body corpo-
" The Commissioners of Gaithersburg," with all the	rate.
powers and privileges of a body politic and corpo-
rate, 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
have and use a common seal.
SEC. 2. The limits of said town shall begin at a
stone planted on the west side of the Goshen road,
a little east of Diamond Hall, and run thence with
said road to the southern limits of the Metropolitan
Branch Railroad, thence with said railroad, on the
south side thereof, to a lot of land belonging to the	Limits.
late Charles Soffell, thence across said lot and the
Georgetown and Frederick road to a stone on Remas
G. Dorsey's land, thence with the outlines of said
Dorsey's land to the new cut road, known as the
Fitzgerald road, thence to a stone on Chestnut street,
thence by a straight line to a stone on the dividing
line between Wade and Lanahan, thence with said
line to the Frederick and Georgetown road, thence
across said road to a stone on a line between the
lands of Giles Eastern and Ignatius Thomas Fulks,
thence with said line to a stone, thence with a straight
line to the beginning.
SEC. 3. The citizens of said town having resided
therein six months previous to any election shall, on
the first Monday in May next, or as soon thereafter as
conveniently may be, and annually thereafter on the	Elect com-
same day, elect five commissioners of Gaithersburg,	missioners.
to serve for one year or until their successors shall
be elected and qualified. The commissioners must
The substantial citizens, resident in said corporate
limits, and must have resided therein for at least six
months next preceding their election, and must con-
tinue so to reside during their term of office. They