JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GERNOR.

1833.

men may appoint a clerk and one or more baliffs for the
purpose of keeping good order in said town.

CHAP. 176.
Appoint clerk

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That in case of refusal, death,
resignation or disqualification of the Mayor, or any Coun-
cilman, a new election shall be made by a majority of said
Councilmen to supply such vacancy.

Vacancies

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the town of Cumber-
land shall be and is hereby erected, constituted and made
an incorporated town, and that the corporate body of the
said town consist of a Mayor and six Councilmen, which
said Mayor and Councilmen shall be a body corporate and
one community forever, in right and by the name of the
Mayor and Councilmen of the town of Cumberland, and
shall be able to sue and be sued at law, and to act and to
execute, do and perform as a body corporate, which shall
have succession forever, and to that end to have a common
seal and the same to change and niter at pleasure

Town incorporated

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the limits of the said
town for all purposes, except taxation by the laws of the
corporation, shall be as follows: half a mile in every direc-
tion all round the town, to be computed and measured
from the town lots on the outer edge or confines of the
town proper, as located and settled by law, and by the
plat already recorded among the records of Allegany coun-
ty.

Town limits

CHAPTER 176

A supplement to the act, entitled, an act for opening and
increasing the width of Get man Lane, in the city of Balt-
imore, passed at December session eighteen hundred and
thirty one, chap, three hundred and one.

Passed Mar. 11,1834

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That Solomon Ettirig, Joseph Cushing, Ben-
jamin D. Higdon, Samuel Moore, and James Carroll, ju-
nior, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners in
lieu of the persons appointed by the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore, under and by virtue of the act to which
this is a supplement, and they or a majority of them, are

Commissioners na-
med to supersede
&c.