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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.

CHAPTER 597.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Hillsboro, Caroline

County, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Creating
Hillsboro,

land, That the inhabitants of the town of Hillsboro, in Caro-

Caroline

line County, be and they are hereby created a body corporate

County a
body cor-

by the name of the Commission of Hillsboro, with all the

porate.

powers and privileges of a body politic and corporate, and by

said corporate name may have perpetual succession, and by

that name may sue and be sued, 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 ; the said corporation may or-

ganize, proceed and act through its commissioners to be se-

lected as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said corporation may re-

Rights of cor-
poration.

ceive in trust, and may control for the purpose of such trusts,

all money or other property which may be bestowed upon such

corporation by will, deed or in any other form of gift or con-

veyance, for any general corporation purpose, or in aid of the

indigent and poor, or for charitable purposes with said village ;

and the said corporation may lease or otherwise dispose of any

property which may be hereafter acquired by said village,

having first given public notice of such lease or sale in one or

more of the newspapers printed in Caroline County once a

week for three successive weeks before such lease or sale.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the boundaries and limits

Boundaries.

of said town shall be as follows, to wit : Beginning at the foot

of the east side of Tuckahoe bridge along the meanderings

of the Tuckahoe river at mean high water mark south to a place

to be fixed and marked by the Commissioners first elected on

the land of the heirs of the late James W. Holt, about or op-

posite the division line of the Protestant Episcopal Church lot

and the said Holt lands and that of the lots of Thomas B.

Sparklin, east, until it intersects the Tuckahoe Neck public

road on the west side; thence along the west side of the said

road north to a point to be fixed and marked on the land of