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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 555-
AN ACT to incorporate the Town of Secretary, in Dorchester
County.

Dorchester Co
Commission'rs
of Secretary.
Incorporated.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the citizens of the Town of Secretary, in Dor-
chester County, are hereby constituted a body corporate under
the name of the Commissioners of Secretary, and as such have
perpetual succession, and by that name may sue and be sued,
purchase, hold and dispose of real, personal and mixed prop-
erty for the benefit of said town, own, use and alter, as may
be required, a common seal, and exercise certain other privi-
leges hereinafter specified.

Corporate
limits of said
town.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the corporate limits of the said
Town of Secretary shall be as follows: Beginning on the
south bank of the Warwick river at a point west of the Balti-
more, Chesapeake and Atlantic Steamboat Wharf, (or by
whatsoever name or names the said wharf may be known),
where the division line between the said steamboat property
and the lands of Mr. R. T. Wright intersects the aforesaid
south bank of the Warwick river; thence running with said
division line in a south, southeasterly direction to the north
side of the public road leading from Secretary to Cambridge;
thence in an easterly direction with the north side of said
road and causeway, Webster's coal and wood shed on the east
bank of the south branch of the Warwick river; thence with
the east bank of said south branch to the mouth of a ravine
on or near the division line between the lands of Capt. George
W. Lane and the Tar Kiln track of land; thence with the said
ravine in an easterly direction to the division line between the
lands of Mr. Samuel Webster and Mr. Tilghman; thence with
said line in a northerly direction to and with the division line
between the lands of Mr. Tilghman and Mr. Slocum and Mr.
Tilghman and Mr. B. W. Holland, to and across the East New
Market road, and continuing in the same northerly direction
across the lands of Mr. Melroshak to the south bank of the
north branch of the Warwick river; thence with the said south
bank of the north branch to the south end of New or Short
Bridge; thence with the middle of the said north branch in a
westerly direction to a point in the Warwick river due north
from the place of beginning; thence due south to the aforesaid
beginning.

Qualified
voters.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That all male citizens of this State
who have resided in said town six months next preceding the
date of election, and are at the time legally qualified to vote