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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 497

thence south 25 degrees west 686 feet to a post; thence
south 27 degrees west 476 feet to a locust tree; thence
south 3 degrees west 750 feet to the corner of Footen's
stable; thence south 25 1/2 degrees west 494 feet to an oak
tree; thence south 17 degrees east 1,000 feet to a post
near Potomac dump; thence south 78 degrees east 775
feet to the beginning at the cucumber tree; and the property
within said lines shall be subject to such taxes and charges
as may be deemed by said commissioners or a majority of
them to support and maintain and provide for the expense
which may at any time be incurred in the government and
improvement of said town.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the male citizens of the
town of Barton, aforesaid, of the age of twenty-one years
and upwards, being citizens of the United States, who have

Five commis-
sioners to be
elected.

resided in said town for and during the period of six months
next preceding the last Monday in April in each and every
year, at the usual place of holding State and county election
in said town, or at such other place as shall be designated
by the commissioners of Barton, are hereby authorized to
elect five commissioners for the said town, who shall be own-
ers of real estate and taxpayers in said town on an assess-
ment of not less than five hundred dollars, and who shall
have resided within the limits of the said town for two years
next preceding the election; also a city clerk and a bailiff,
each of whom shall have resided in said town for two years
next preceding his election; the commissioners elected under
this Act shall serve for one and two years or until their suc-
cessors are elected and qualified; and it is herein provided
that the two commissioners receiving the highest number of
votes at the first election shall serve for two years, and the
three receiving the lowest number of votes shall serve for

Term of office.

one year, and that at the second election there shall be
elected three commissioners to serve for two years, and there
shall in alternate years be two and three persons elected, so
that there shall always be five commissioners of said town ;
the clerk and bailiff to be elected under the provisions of
this Act shall, after they have qualified, hold their offices or
serve for one year or until their successors are elected and
qualified.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the commissioners, the
clerk and the bailiff under the provisions of this Act shall