1847.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 180.

by law, for each day he may necessarily be engaged
in performing the duties the said orders or warrants
may enjoin, including the time necessarily occupied by
said surveyor in reaching said surveys and returning
therefrom, and in making out the proper number of plats
thereof, and the said .surveyor when the same shall be
required by the persons for whom the services shall
be rendered shall state his account of such services under

oath.

To keep copy
of public busi-
ness, and hand
same over to
successor.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the present and succeeding surveyors, of Harford
county, to keep a regular and correct copy of the public
business transacted by him as surveyor, and shall hand
the same over to his successor.

In force.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the passage thereof.

Inconsistent
laws repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts
of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, so
far as relates to Harford county, be and the same is
hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 180.

Passed
March 3, 1848.

Incorporated.

An act to incorporate the Point of Rocks, in Frederick
County.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, of
Maryland, That the citizens of the Point of Rocks, in
Frederick county, shall be and they are hereby consti-
tuted and made a body corporate, by the name of the
Burgess and Commissioners of the Point of Rocks; with
all the privileges of a body corporate, and to have a
common seal, and perpetual succession.

Qualification
of voters.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the free white male
citizens of the Point of Rocks aforesaid of the age of
twenty-one years and upwards, and having resided in
said town for and during the space of six months
next preceding the election shall, on the first Monday
of April next, at the house now occupied as a tavern
by John Hann, and on the first Monday of April in
each and every year hereafter at such place as shall be
designated by the burgess and commissioners, be
authorised to elect a burgess and three commissioners
for the said town, who shall have resided within the
limits of said town six months next preceding the elec-