520 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 26,

23. The survey last made under the authority of the
Mayor and Councilmen of the City of Cumberland and en-
tered upon the record of their proceedings, and recorded in
the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany county,
shall nonstitute the bounds and limits of said city ; Provided,
however, That for all sanitary and police purposes, the Mayor
and City Council shall have and exercise full authority and
control for one-half mile in every direction, beyond the bounds
and limits above mentioned.

24. The property and funds of every kind, belonging
to, or in possesion of, the City of Cumberland, are vested in
the said corporation, and the said corporation may receive in
trust, and may control for the purpose of such trust, all
money or other property which may have been, or shall be
bestowed upon such corporation by will, deed or in any other
form of gift or conveyance, in trust for any general corpora-
tion purpose, or in aid of the indigent poor, or for the gen-
eral purposes of education, or for charitable purposes of any
description, within the said city, and the said corporation
may lease or otherwise dispose of any property belonging to
the city, having first complied with the requirements of sec-
tion twenty-two of this Article, and having afterward given
public notice of such proposed lease or sale in one or more of
the public newspapers of said city, at least once a week for
three successive weeks before such lease or sale.

25. The City of Cumberland shall be divided into six
wards, bounded as follows : For the first ward, all that por-
tion of the city lying on the west side of Wills' Creek ; be-
ginning for the second ward at the intersection of Bedford
street with. Will's Creek, and running with said creek to the.
northwesterly limits of said city, and with said limits to the
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rail Road, and with the centre
of said railroad to its intersection with Bedford street, and
with the centre of said Bedford street westwardly to Wills'
Creek; beginning for the third ward at the intersection of the
Cumberland and Pennsylvania Rail Road with Bedford street,
and running northeastwardly with the centre of said Bedford
street and of the Bedford Road, to the northeastern limits of
said city, and with said line to the northwestern limits o-f
said city, and with said northwestern limits to the said Cum-
berland and Pennsylvania Rail Road, and with the centre of
said railroad to the place of beginning ; the fourth ward shall
comprise all that portion of the city bounded on the west by
Wills' Creek, and contained within the centre of Bedford
street and the centre of Baltimore street and the Baltimore
Turnpike, to the eastern limits of said city ; beginning for
the fifth ward at the intersection of Baltimore street and
Wills' Creek, and running with the centre of Baltimore
street and the Baltimore Turnpike to the eastern limits of