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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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session, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, chapter
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two hundred and fifty-eight, entitled "An act to
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amend article twenty-one of the Code of Public
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Repeal and
re-enact cer-
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Local Laws, entitled Washington county, by amend-
ing and re-enacting certain sections, and adding
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tain sections.
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thereto further sections, and to re-enact the same
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with amendments, so as to elect the Councilmen of
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Hagerstown by the voters in the respective wards of
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said town, and to authorize the Justices of the Peace
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to enforce the ordinances relative to crimes and pun-
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ishments ; " be, and the same are hereby repealed,
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and the following enacted in lieu thereof:
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SEC. 109. The inhabitants of Hagerstown, in
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Washington county, Maryland, are a corporation
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by the name of " The Mayor and Council of Ha-
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Corporation.
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gerstown," and by that name shall have perpetual
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succession ; may sue and be sued, may have and use
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a common seal, and possess such other incidents and
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attributes as attach by law to a municipal corpora-
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tion.
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Survey.
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SEC. 110. The survey made under the authority
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of the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown, by Sam-
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uel S. Downin, surveyor, and adopted by ordinance
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passed on the eleventh day of June, in the year
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eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and entered upon
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the records of their proceedings, and recorded in the
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office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Wash-
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ington county, in Liber number seventy-three, folios
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four hundred and seventy-seven and four hundred
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and seventy-eight, one of the Land Records of Wash-
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ington coiinty, Maryland, and the map of Hagers-
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town, inserted in said book of records, next preced-
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ing the record of said survey, shall constitute the
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Bounds and
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bounds and limits of said town, and the said map
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limits of town
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and record of survey shall be received as evidence
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of the limits and boundaries of the said town, and
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the wards, lots, streets, lanes and alleys thereof.
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Provided, however, that for sanitary and police pur-
poses the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown shall
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have and exercise full power and control for a dis-
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tance of one-half mile in every direction from said
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corporate limits.
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SEC. 111. The male citizens of Hagerstown of the
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age of twenty-one years and upwards, who have re-
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