1316 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 761

40. The limits of the Town of Bladensburg shall be as
described on a plat thereof made by J. R. H. Deakins in
May, 1870, except as changed by Chapter 66 of the Acts
of 1916. Beginning for the same at a stake planted on the
South side of the County Road leading to Washington, known
as Bunker Hill Road, by what was H. Carleton's Mill and 3 1/2
perches from the junction of said road and the Baltimore and
Washington Turnpike, thence North 11 degrees East 151 1/2
perches to a stake on Shed's lot, thence North 70 degrees East
44 perches, thence South 63 degrees East to the Edmonston
Road and thence with the said Road to the Northwest corner
of Section Two of a sub-division of land known as Decatur
Heights, thence with the North line of said sub-division to the
Northeast corner thereof, thence with the Eastern Line of
the same to the Defense Highway, thence with said Defense
Highway to the Northeast corner of Section One of Decatur
Heights, thence with the Eastern Line of Section One to the
Old Bladensburg and Landover County Road, thence by a
straight line to a gum tree, one of the former boundaries of
said Town, thence South 88 degrees West 129% perches to a
pin oak on a ditch between the land formerly owned by a
certain Henry M. Carleton and Colby, thence North 62 1/2
degrees West 94 1/2 perches, save and except from the afore-
going description so much of the land covered thereby as may
be now within the corporate limits of Hyattsville.

41. All adult persons who are citizens of the United States
and who have resided within the Town of Bladensburg for
twelve months immediately preceding the day of election, and
who are registered on the town registration books, shall elect
by ballot, on the first Monday in May, every alternate year,
accounting from the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
five adult persons to act as commissioners of said Town, all
of whom shall have resided within said Town three years im-
mediately preceding the day of election, and each of whom
shall be the owner, in his own right, or in the name of himself
or herself and spouse, of real estate therein, assessed at not
less than five hundred dollars and which shall have been as-
sessed in his or her name or the name of himself or herself
and spouse on the assessment books of said Town at least
twelve months preceding the day of election.

42. The Commissioners of said Town shall on or before
the first day of April 1942 and each two years thereafter ap-
point two persons from among the voters thereof, not holding
any other office thereunder as Supervisors of Election, who
shall also act as Registration Officials and Judges of Election
at any election held during the biennium succeeding their
appointment. In case of a vacancy occurring in the office of