1128 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

30. The corporate authority, government, rights, powers and
privileges of the said town shall be vested in and exercised by
a Mayor and five Councilmen to be selected as hereinafter pro-
vided, who shall be real estate owners and qualified voters of
said town twelve months next preceding their election, and
their term of office shall be as hereinafter provided, or until
their successors are elected and qualified.

31. The taxable and corporate limits of said town shall in-
clude all the land and territory contained and embraced within
the following metes and bounds, courses and distances, to wit:
beginning at the southeast corner of the Buchingham ceme-
tery, and running from thence by and with the south side of
the Newport road, via the African M. E. Church to the north-
west corner of the Major Hill lot, and thence to the intersection
of the Synepuxent road with Hudson's branch; thence to the
south side of the bridge over Nelson's branch on the Taylor-
ville road; thence to the south side of the bridge at the inter-
section of the St. Martin's and Whaleyville roads; thence to
the gate of the heirs of Littleton P. Franklin, on the Liberty-
town road; thence to the southwest corner of H. D. Tingle's
lot on the road running from Buckingham cemetery to the D.
M. and V. railroad; thence in an easterly course, by and with
the south side of said road and the south line of said cemetery
to the beginning.

32. Any male citizen of the United States who has never
been convicted of any infamous crime, either in this State or
elsewhere, but who has resided within the State for one year
and in the corporate limits of the town of Berlin for six
months next preceding the election, and who is above the age
of twenty-one years, shall be entitled to vote at all municipal
elections hereafter held in said town of Berlin, provided he
shall possess at least one of the following qualifications, viz:
(1) If he is the bona fide and actual owner of real or personal
property to the value of five hundred dollars or upwards, for
which he has been duly and lawfully assessed on the assessment
books of said town; or (2) if, prior to January 1, 1868, he
was entitled to vote in the State of Maryland or elsewhere in
the United States at a State election; or (3) if he is a male,
lawful descendant of a person who, prior to January 1, 1868,
was entitled to vote in the State of Maryland or elsewhere in
the United States at a State election. And the male citizens
of said town of Berlin who are qualified to vote as herein de-
scribed and set forth, shall, on the first Monday of May, 1908,
and on the same day each second year thereafter, elect by bal-
lot one person to be Mayor, and likewise on the first Monday
in May, 1908, elect by ballot three persons to be City Council-