430 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of Maryland, title "Montgomery County," sub-title "County
Commissioners,'' to follow Section 127 and to be known as Sec-
tion 127 1/2, and to read as follows:

SEC. 1271/2. The County Commissioners of Montgomery
County shall each receive the sum of five dollars per diem for
each day's attendance upon business of said office in lieu of all
other compensation per diem or mileage. Provided, however,
that said sum or sums of money so paid to any of said Com-
missioners shall not exceed the sum of One Thousand Dol-
lars in any year.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all other Acts that are incon-
sistent with the provisions of this Act be and the same are
hereby repealed.

Approved April 4th, 1914.

CHAPTER 291.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Barton, Allegany County,
Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the citizens of the town of Barton, in Allegany
County, shall be, and they are hereby constituted and made a
body corporate, by the name of the Commissioners of Barton,
and with all the privileges of a body corporate, and by that
name to sue and be sued, and to have and to use a common seal
and to have perpetual succession.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the limits of the said town
shall be as follows: Beginning at a cucumber tree standing
on the north side of Potomac tram road; thence N. 28 1/2 de-
grees E. 500 feet to an oak tree; thence N. 10 degrees E. 300
feet to a hickory tree; thence N. 20 degrees E. 530 feet to an
oak tree; thence N. 28 1/2 degrees E. 436 feet to a beech tree;
thence N. 2 1/2 degrees E. 250 feet to a thorn bush; thence N.
281/2 degrees E. 1044 feet to a leaning oak tree; thence N. 39
degrees E. 857 feet to a telephone pole; thence N. 60 derees W.
1150 feet to a sugar tree; thence S. 87 3/4 degrees W. 500 feet
to a locust tree; thence N. 59 degrees W. 256 feet to a post;
thence S. 25 degrees W. 686 feet to a post; thence S. 27 de-