JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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the general 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 section twenty-

two of this article, and having afterward given pub-

lic 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

Divided into
wards

that portion of the city lying on the west side of

Wills Creek; beginning for the second ward at the

intersection of Bedford street with Wills Creek, and

running with said Creek to the north-westerly limits

of said city, and with said limits to the Cumberland

and Pennsylvania Railroad 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.

Railroad with Bedford street, and running north-

eastwardly with the centre of said Bedford street and

of the Bedford road to the north-eastern limits of

Meets and
bounds thereof

said city, and with said line to the north-western

limits of said city, and with said north-western limits

to the said Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad,

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 said city, and with

said eastern limits to the centre of the Williams road

and with the said road to the Baltimore and Ohio

Railroad, thence by a straight line with the centre

line of said Williams road extended, to the Potomac

River, and thence by said river and Wills Creek to

the place of beginning; the sixth ward shall com-

prise all that portion of the city south of the fifth

ward and east of the Potomac river.