EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR. .

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any property now held, or which may be hereafter acquired
by said corporation, by first giving proper notice of such

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lease or sale in one or more of the newspapers printed in
Caroline county once a week for three successive weeks
before such lease or sale.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the boundaries of

May dispose of
property.

Greensboro shall be as they have been or may hereafter be
fixed by the commissioners of said town, from time to time,
provided that said commissioners shall not extend the boun-
daries of said town so that the same shall include more than
five hundred acres.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the male inhabi-

Boundaries.

tants of Greensboro, citizens of the State of Maryland and
of the United States above the age of twenty-one years, who
have resided in said town for at least six months next pre-
ceding the election and who are assessed on the tax books
of said town with real or personal property to the value of
at least one hundred dollars, and all other male residents of
said town possessed of the qualifications of citizenship, age
and residence as aforesaid, who shall on or before the third
Monday in March of each year pay to the treasurer or bailiff
of said town a sum of money equal to the tax rate for that
year on one hundred dollars, and receive a receipt therefor,
and no others, shall on the fourth Monday of April annually,
between the hours of one and five o'clock in the afternoon,
at such place as the commissioners of said town shall
appoint, elect by ballot five persons, resident and qualified
voters of said town and who shall be assessed on the tax
books thereof with at least three hundred dollars' worth of
property, as commissioners of Greensboro, who shall hold
their office for one year and until their successors are duly
elected and qualified.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners,

Commission-
ers to be
elected.

or a majority of them, shall be judges of said election, or
they may appoint any three voters to act as judges, and the
proceedings shall be recorded under their direction; and
every commissioner or person so appointed before he opens
an election shall make oath before a justice of the peace or
notary public for Caroline county that he will faithfully and
impartially permit every person to vote at such election who
shall be qualified to vote for commissioners of said town,

Judges of elec-
tion.