ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOTERNOR.

tion, and may purchase and hold real, personal
and mixed property for the benefit of said cor-
poration ; provided, however, that the burgess
and commissioners shall not purchase or acquire

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any real estate unless the said burgess and com-
missioners shall first provide by ordinance for
said purchase, and the mode and manner of pay-
ment therefor; and all ordinances for the pur-
chase of real estate shall provide for the submis-
sion of the question of said purchase to the
qualified voters of the town at some regular
election for the election of burgess, assistant
burgess, and three commissioners of said town;
such ordinance, before being submitted to the
qualified voters of the town, shall be posted in
at least three of the public places of said town
for four weeks previous to its submission to the
qualified voters of said town; and no ordinance
for the purchase of real estate shall be of any
force or validity unless it shall receive a major-
ity of the votes cast at such election.

Incorporated.

SEC. 290. The government of said town shall
be vested in a burgess, assistant burgess, and
three commissioners, to be elected as hereafter
provided.
SEC. 297. The taxable limits of the town of
Smithsburg are hereby declared to be as follows :
Beginning on "Meisner's Hill," on the public
road leading from Smithsburg to Leitersburg, at

Government.

a point on the west side of said road, the same
being the northeast corner of the lot of ground
conveyed by Samuel Meisner to Edward Clark,
and the eastern terminus of the line dividing
said lot of ground from the land recently pur-
chased by said Edward Clark, from H. W.
Lyday and running, thence south seventy-three
and one-half degrees east, one hundred and
eighteen and one-half perches ; south eighteen
and one- half degrees east, twenty-one and sixty-
four-hundredths perches ; south sixteen and
three-fourth degrees east, fifty-six and twelve-
hundredths perches south sixty-two degrees
west, eighty-seven and sixteen-hundredths
perches ; north seventy-two and one-half de-
grees west, fifty-one and twenty-eight hun-
dredths perches; thence north thirty-eight and
three-fourths degrees west, thirty-three and

Taxable limits