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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, March 30, 1868
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THOMAS SWANN, ENQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 267

42. The citizens of Havre de Grace, in Harford
County, are a body corporate, by the name of
" The Commissioners of Havre de Grace," and by
that name may sue and be sued, may have and use
a common seal, and may purchase and hold any
property, real, personal, or mixed, and dispose of
the same for the benefit of said Town.

Title.

43. The limits of the town of Havre de Grace
shall be as follows: Beginning for the same at the
north end of Lycoming street, as designated on
the map thereof by Septimus Norris, in the year
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, and running
thence in a straight line with said street northerly
three-fourths of a mile, thence easterly parallel
with Huron street to the east side of the embank-
ment of the Tidewater Canal, thence by and with
said embankment and improvements of said em-
bankment to the outlet and lock of said canal,
thence by and with the Susquehanna River and
Chesapeake Bay to the east end of Pocomoco
street, thence by and with Pocomoco street, until
it intersects Columbia street, thence in a straight
line to the intersection of Alliance and Lycoming
streets, and thence by and with Lycoming street
to the place of beginning.

Limits.

44. All free white male citizens of Havre de
Grace, above the age of twenty-one years, who
shall have bona fide resided in said town for six
months, and twelve months in the State next pre-
ceding the election, shall, on the first Monday in
January in each year, at such place as shall be
designated by the Corporation, elect five judicious
and discreet persons, who have resided in said
town for at least twelve months next preceding the
election, Commissioners of said town.

Who to vote

SEC. 45. All elections shall be held and con-
ducted as shall from time to time be directed by
the by-laws of the Corporation, not inconsistent
with the provisions of this charter.

Elections.

Sec. 46. If any of the Commissioners during
the year for which they were elected, shall die, re-
sign, remove from said town, or be otherwise dis-
qualified, an election to fill the vacancy shall be
held, and all persons qualified to vote at the regu-
lar, may vote at such special election.

Vacancy.



 

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