910 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 635]

of Commissioners; also to repeal section 167 of Article 23 of
the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Wicomico County," sub-
title "Sharptown," relating to powers and duties of commis-
sioners, as repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 421 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland, January Session of
1894, and to re-enact same with amendments; and Chapter
363 of the Acts of 1904, entitled "An Act to repeal and
re-enact with amendments section 165 of Article 23 of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Wicomico County,"
sub-title "Sharptown," relating to appointment of clerk, be and:
the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments
and additions, to read as follows:

159. The inhabitants of the Town of Sharptown, in Wicom-
ico county, be and they are hereby constituted a body cor-
porate, by the name of the "Commissioners of Sharptown," and
by that name shall have perpetual succession, sue and be sued,
have and use a common seal, which may be altered at pleasure,
and have all powers and privileges incident to or that may
attach to a municipal corporation.

160. The taxable and corporate limits of said town shall
begin at low water-mark, on the south side of the Nanticoke
River, and running south twenty and one-half degrees east to
the north corner of the Jonathan J. Robinson lot, and running
the above-named courses, two hundred and thirty-three perches,
or until it comes straight with the northwest end of the John
Nelson land; thence south seventy-two degrees, west one hun-
dred and eighty-nine perches, to a road; thence north twenty
and one-half degrees, west one hundred and sixty-two perches,
with the road to low-water mark; thence up the Nanticoke
River to the beginning. The commissioners hereafter elected
to be elected may make such alterations in said limits as they
may deem advisable, and cause the same to be surveyed and
the boundaries thereof to be established, and the record thereof
to be filed amongst the records of the corporation.

161. All the property, franchises and funds of every kind
belonging to or in possession of the Commissioners of Sharp-
town are. vested in this corporation; and the said corporation
may receive in trust and may control for the purpose of said
trust all moneys or other property which may have been or shall
be bestowed upon such corporation by will, deed or other form
of gift or conveyance in trust, for any general corporate pur-
pose, or in aid of the indigent poor, or for the general pur-
poses of education, or for charitable purposes of any descrip-
tion, within said Town of Sharptown; and the said corporation