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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Body
corporate.

1. The inhabitants of that district of county situate in
Montgomery county, in the State of Maryland, embraced
within the limits prescribed in the next succeeding section,
shall be and continue to be a body politic and corporate by the
name and style of the town of Gaithersburg, and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, and
have and use a common seal.

2. That the limits of said town shall be as follows : Begin-

Limits of
town.

ning at a stone planted on the dividing line between Ignatius
T. Fulks and Ettings M. Hinckley, and run thence with a
straight line across the lands of John W. Walker and others
to a stone planted on the northeast corner of Nathan H.
Darby's lot ; thence with a straight line to a stone planted
on the dividing line between George E. Noyes and Mary
Augusta Hutton ; thence with a straight line across the
Laytonsville road, Metropolitan Branch Railroad, the lands
of the eaid Mary Augusta Hutton, and Georgetown and
Frederick road, to a stone planted on the land of Ignatius T.
Fulks ; thence with a straight line across the lands of the said
Ignatius T. Fulks, Philemon M. Smith, the Fitzgerald road,
and the lands formerly belonging to Martha A. Meem, to a
Btone planted on the land formerly belonging to Henry C.
Ward ; thence with a straight line across the land formerly
belonging to the said Henry C. Ward, the Metropolitan Branch
. Railroad, the lands formerly belonging to said Martha A.
Meem, David M. Monro, the Georgetown and Frederick road,
to the dividing line between Ignatius T. Fulks and James O.
Robbitt; thence with said dividing line to the beginning, as
shown by the plat on tile in the clerk's office of said county in
plat book No. 1, Plat No. 6.

3. The residents of said town, being qualified voters under

Election to
be held.

the laws of this State, and who have resided in said town for
three months previous to any election, shall, on the first Mon-
day in May next, and every two years thereafter on the same
day, elect one person at least thirty years of age, Mayor of
said town, and four persons, not less than twenty-five years of
age, who, together with the Mayor, shall constitute the Council,
and all of whom shall have resided in the town at least one
year previous to their election, and be legal voters and tax-
payers therein, and shall so continue during their term of
office. They shall receive no pay for their services, except the
Mayor, who shall receive the lees hereinafter allowed ; and
they shall serve for two years from the first Monday in June
ensuing.