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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

session, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, entitled

"an act to repeal sections twenty-three, thirty- one,

thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-five, fifty-three, and

fifty-four, of the first article of the Code of Public

Local Laws and to re-enact the same with amend-

ments, and insert additional sections relating to the

charter of the city of Cumberland," be and the same

are hereby repealed, and the following sections en-

acted in lieu thereof:

22. The inhabitants of the city of Cumberland in

Corporation

Allegany county, are a corporation by the name of

the "Mayor and City Council of Cumberland," and

by that name may sue and be sued, may have and use

a common seal, which may be altered at pleasure,

and may purchase and hold real, personal, and mixed

Proviso

property, or dispose of the same for the benefit of

the said city ; provided, that the purchase, or alien-

ation of such real property, where the value thereof

shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars, shall

first be submitted to the voters of said city, at a gen-

eral election for Mayor and members of the City

Council as provided by this act, after twenty days.

public notice, and a majority of the legal voters as-

senting thereto.

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23. The survey last made under the authority of

Survey

the Mayor and Councilmen of the city of Cum-

berland, and entered upon the record of their pro-

ceedings, and recorded in the office of the Clerk of

the Circuit Court for Allegany county, shall consti-

tute 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 men-

tioned.

Property and

24. The property and funds of every kind belong-

funds

ing to or in possession of the city of Cumberland are

vested in the said corporation, and the said corpora-

tion may receive in rust, and may control for the

purposes 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 corpo-

ration purpose, or in aid of the indigent poor, or for