1270 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ments to be numbered Sections one hundred sixty-nine to one
hundred eighty-two, inclusive, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 169. And be it further enacted, That the inhabitants of
Hillsborough are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by
the name of '' The Commissioners of Hillsborough,'' and by that
name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, have
and use a common seal, which may be altered at pleasure, and
have and possess all powers incident to municipal corporations,
as well as those hereinafter particularly enumerated.

SEC. 170. And be it further enacted, That the limits of said
town shall be as follows:

Beginning at the foot of the east side of Tuckahoe bridge along
the meanderings of the Tuckahoe river at mean high water mark
south to a place to be fixed and marked by the Commissioners
first elected on the land of the heirs of the late James W. Holt,
about or opposite the division line of the Protestant Episcopal
Church lot and the said Holt lands and that of the lots of
Thomas B. Sparklin, east, until it intersects the Tuckahoe Neck
public road on the west side; thence along the west side of the
said road north to a point to be fixed and marked
on the land of George H. Hobbs, Jr.; thence across said road
to the division of the fields of Mary E. Fisher and others along
said line east until it reaches the southeast corner of the lot
now owned by Samuel Handy, known as the Talbot lot; thence
with said lot's line north until it reaches the Hillsboro and
Denton public road on the south side; thence west with said
public road to a point opposite the west side of the Ridgely
public road; thence along the west side of the said road to a
distance of two hundred and fifty yards from the southeast
corner of the lot of W. F. Pennington, known as the William
Hackett lot;'thence west parallel with the main street of said
town of Hillsboro, extending a distance of two hundred and fifty
yards from the north of the main street of said town of Hills-
boro to the Tuckahoe river at mean high water mark; thence
south along the meanderings of the Tuckahoe river until it
reaches the place of beginning; provided, that no taxes shall be
levied by the Commissioners of Hillsboro for corporate pur-
poses upon any real estate (that which is located upon open
avenues to the depot of one hundred and eighty feet excepted)
situated in said town, unless the same is divided into lots of one
acre or less in area, or has a dwelling house or other buildings
thereon, and then not exceeding one acre of such land shall be
taxed in addition to the buildings.