FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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not purchase or acquire any real estate, unless the said burgess
and commissioners shall first provide by ordinance for said
purchase, and the mode and manner of payment therefor; and
all ordinances for the purchase of real estate shall provide for
submitting the question of the said purchase to the qualified
voters of the town, at some regular election for the election
of burgess and commissioners of said town; and before any
such ordinance shall be submitted to the qualified voters of
the town, at least three weeks' public notice shall be given, by
regular printed hand-bills or otherwise, posted up in all the
most public places in said town, of an intention to submit said
ordinance to the qualified voters of the town; and said notice
shall set forth the ordinance in full, and the mode and manner
of payment proposed; and no ordinance for the purchase of
real estate shall be of any force or validity, unless it shall
receive a majority of all the votes cast at said election.

SEC. 3. The government of said town shall be vested in a

Purchase of
real estate.

burgess, assistant burgess and five commissioners, to be elected
as hereinafter provided; no person elected and qualified as
burgess, assistant burgess or commissioner, or any person hold-
ing any office by election, appointed or otherwise, under the
provisions of this act, or by notice thereof, shall, during the
term of his office, be interested, directly or indirectly, in any
contract in which the town is a party or is interested; and any
person violating the provisions of this section shall he pro-
ceeded against by indictment in the Circuit Court for Wash-
ington county, and upon conviction, be fined or imprisoned, or
both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 4. The taxable limits of the town of Sharpsburg are

Government
of town.

hereby declared to be as follows: Beginning at a stone
marked "S. B. S." No. 1, planted at the northeast corner of
the Antietam National Cemetery, the same being at the end of
a line bearing north, seventy-one and a-half degrees east,
twenty-five hundred and eighty-two feet three inches from a
stone marked "S" standing in the center of the intersection of
Main and Mechanics streets in said town, thence north, twenty-
two degrees west, three hundred and twenty feet to "S. B."
stone number two at the northeast corner of Mountain View
Cemetery; thence north, sixty-seven degrees west, five hun-
dred and fourteen feet six inches to "S. B." stone No. 3, at the
northwest corner of Mountain View Cemetery; thence south,
eighty-three degrees west, eleven hundred and thirty-five feet
to "S. B." stone No. 4, planted on the west side of the Hagers-

Corporate
limits.