2018 ARTICLE 8.

PERRYVILLE.

P. L. L., 1888. Art. 8, sec. 221. 1882, ch. 212.

326. The citizens of the town of Perryville are made a body corporate
by the name and style of "The Commissioners of Perryville," and by
that name may sue and be sued, may grant, receive and do all other acts
as natural persons, and may purchase and hold real, personal and mixed
property, or dispose of the same for the benefit of said town, and may
have and use a common seal, which may be altered at pleasure, and shall
have perpetual succession.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 222. 1882, ch. 212.

327. The taxable limits of said town shall be as follows: Begining at a
point in the center of the track of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad Company, at the east end of the abutment of the
bridge of said company that crosses the Susquehanna River, and on the
east side of said river, and running in an easterly direction in the center
of the north-bound track of said company to a point under the west side
of the bridge of John Stump; thence in a northwesterly direction by a
straight line to a large fiat stone in or on the edge of a small run on the
land of the Misses Chamberlain, one hundred and fifty-seven feet in an
easterly direction from, a very large poplar tree that stands on the line
between the lands of the said Misses Chamberlain and Doctor Virdin;
thence in a westerly direction, with and bounding on said run and on the
south side thereof until it empties into the Susquehanna River, twenty
feet north of the ice houses and wharf of Cochran & Co.; thence with and
bounding on the Susquehanna River to the place of beginning.

P. L. L.. 1888. Art. 8. set. 223. 1882, ch. 212.

328. The male citizens of the United States of the age of twenty-one
years and upwards, who shall have resided in the town of Perryville one
year next preceding the election, and all male citizens of the United
States of the age of twenty-one years and upwards who own real estate
to the value of fifty dollars within the corporate limits of said town, shall
elect by ballot on the first Monday of May in each year, at such place
as the "Commissioners of Perryville" shall designate, three Commission-
ers, who shall be owners of real estate in said town, and who shall have
resided within the limits of the same one year next preceding the elec-
tion; and no Commissioner shall receive any compensation for his serv-
ices as such.

P. L. L., 1888. Art. 8. sec. 224. 1882, ch. 212.

329. Said Commissioners shall annually, on the first Monday of May,
appoint some person to act as judge of: said election, who shall open the
polls at three o'clock P. M., and close the same at six P. M.; and the
persons who shall have the majority of votes shall be declared elected
Commissioners for the ensuing year.