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CHAP. 499
Body
corporate.
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county, shall be and they are hereby constituted and made a
body corporate by the name of the Commissioners of Pitts-
ville, with all the privileges of a body corporate, by that name
to sue and to be sued and to have and use a common seal and
have perpetual succession.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the limits of. said town be
as follows: Beginning at a cedar on the county road leading
from Pittsville to New Hope; thence due west 86 poles to a
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Boundaries.
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small ditch; thence north 16 degrees 30 minutes west 18
poles to a large ditch, by and with the same due west 124
poles; thence north 18 degrees west 46 poles to the north
side of the B. C. & A. R. R.; thence north 55 degrees east
20 poles to the public road; thence south 40 degrees east 10
poles with said road 85 degrees 45 seconds east 50 poles
with the road; thence north 9 degrees east 96 poles; thence
south 70 degrees east 205 poles to a public road; thence
south 28 degrees west 103 poles to the beginning; containing
200 acres, more or less, surveyed March 20, 1906.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the male citizens of Pitts-
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Commis-
sioners
appointed.
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ville aforesaid of the age of twenty-one years and upward,
being citizens of the United States, who have resided in said
town for six months prior to the election to be held in said
town for the election of five commissioners, who shall be
owners of real estate and taxpayers in the said town on
assessment of not less than five hundred dollars, and
the said commissioners elected under this Act shall serve
for one and two years; the two commissioners securing 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 one year, and at each succeeding election two
commissioners shall be elected for two years and three for
one year, as above provided; and said commissioners shall
have power to appoint a bailiff and clerk for said town; if
needful, also a treasurer, who shall be required to give bond
for a sum fixed by commissioners.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the commissioners elected
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Qualification
of commis-
sioners.
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under the provisions of this Act shall qualify on the first
Monday in May of each year by making oath in due form of
law for the faithful performance of their duties, said oath
to be administered by some justice of the peace of said
county.
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