Upper Marlboro                                      2173

UPPER MARLBORO

Prince George's County

Charter of the Town of Upper Marlboro
Prince George's County, Maryland

Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Upper
Marlboro amending the charter of the Town of Upper Marlboro and provid-
ing for publication thereof as required by Chapter 423 of the Acts of
1955 of the General Assembly of Maryland (1957 edition of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, Article 23A, Sec. 9, et seq., as amended).

Be it resolved by the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Upper
Marlboro that the Charter of the Town of Upper Marlboro, Prince George's
County, Maryland, Subtitle 82 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince
George's County, Maryland (1963 Ed.) as amended, be repealed and re-
enacted as follows:

Sec. 82-1. The inhabitants of the town of Upper Marlboro are hereby
continued a body corporate and a municipal corporation by the name of
"The Town of Upper Marlboro" with all of the privileges thereof, by that
name to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded in any court of law or
equity, to have and use a common seal and to have perpetual succession.

CORPORATE LIMITS
Sec. 82-2. The corporate limits of the Town shall be as follows:

Commencing at the mouth of the Federal Spring Branch at its con-
fluence with the Western Branch and running down with the meanders of
the Western Branch on the south side thereof, and exclusive of said branch,
to the stream beyond James. B. Belt's meadow; then up and with said
stream to the small bridge culvert on the road from Upper Marlboro to
Rosaryville, back of the former residence of A. S. Brooke; then in an air or
direct line across the land of Frederick Sasscer to the Federal Spring
Branch at a point which will throw into the corporation all the land for-
merly purchased by Thomas E. Williams and C. C. Magruder, Jr., of the
trustees of D. Benedict J. Gardiner; then down and with the meanders of
said Federal Spring Branch on the south side thereof, and exclusive of said
branch to its mouth, the beginning point aforesaid.

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

Sec. 82-3. (Number, Selection, Term). All legislative powers of the
Town shall be vested in a Board of Commissioners consisting of three Com-
missioners who shall be elected as hereinafter provided and who shall hold
office for a term of two years and until the succeeding Board takes office.
The regular term of the Commissioners shall expire on the first Monday
following the election of their successors. The Commissioners holding
office at the time this charter becomes effective shall continue to hold office
for the term for which they were elected and until the succeeding Board
takes office under the provisions of this charter.

Sec. 82.4. (Qualifications of Commissioners). Commissioners shall
have resided in the Town for at least two years immediately preceding
their election, shall be qualified voters of the Town, and own in his own
name or together with his spouse, real property in said Town with an
assessable value of at least five thousand dollars ($5,000). If, at any time