ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 757

and running thence southeasterly with Crow's Branch to
a point thereon one-quarter of a mile beyond and across
the Washington branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
and thence northerly in a straight line to the place of be-
ginning.

WARDS.

600. The said town of Laurel shall be, for election pur-
poses, divided into three wards as follows:

Ward No. 1. The first ward shall embrace all of said
town lying westerly of a line drawn from the southerly
limits of the town at a point where the westerly line of
Church street intersects said limits, and running from
thence northerly along the westerly line of Church street
to Main street, and thence in a straight line by the same
course to the Patuxent river.

Ward No. 2. The second ward shall embrace all of said
town between the above-mentioned line and a line drawn
from a point in the southerly limits of said town where
the westerly line of Fourth street intersects it, and running
from thence northerly to Main street, along said westerly
line of Fourth street, thence to the westerly side of Race
street, and thence with said side of Race street to the
Patuxent river.

Ward No. 3. The third ward shall embrace all the resi-
due of the said town lying easterly from the westerly line
of Fourth street and Race street.

GOVERNMENT.

601. The government of the said town shall be vested
in a Mayor and five Councilmen, to be elected as herein-
after provided.

602. The Mayor of said town shall be a person of known
integrity, experience and sound judgment, not less than
thirty years of age, not less than ten years a citizen of the
United States, and a resident of the said town for two
years next preceding his election, who has been assessed
upon the assessment books of said town for the year prior
to his election for not less than three hundred dollars, and
who has paid prior to his election the taxes due thereon
for said year. The Mayor shall hold office for two years
from the fourth Monday in April of the year of his elec-
tion and until the qualification of his successor. The
salary of the Mayor shall be fifty ($50. 00) dollars per