DORCHESTER COUNTY. 2163

provisions of the Charter of Cambridge or the ordinances made and passed
thereunder, but the people residing therein shall be residents of the town
of Cambridge but shall not have the right of franchise in municipal elec-
tions held therein, and the County Commissioners of Dorchester County
shall maintain and keep control and jurisdiction of Dorchester County
over all of the public roads and highways in said suburban territory and
the duty of maintaining said roads and highways in said suburban terri-
tory shall remain with the County Commissioners of Dorchester County
as heretofore, but the said suburban territory shall, from the time this Act
shall take effect, be subject to the right of the Commissioners of Cam-
bridge, or the governing body of the town of Cambridge, at any and all
times, to acquire any kind of property therein, by all lawful means for
corporate purposes, within the said suburban territory, for the purpose
of making public improvements such as streets, roads, alleys, and all other
thoroughfares and for the purpose of laying or placing sewers and drains
therein, and for building bulkheads and filling in such of the said suburban
territory as shall be on Cambridge Creek, and to make any other public
improvements, and to acquire the necessary rights to do said things, and
the said governing body, or the Commissioners of Cambridge, are hereby
authorized and empowered to acquire property in the said suburban terri-
tory and to lay out, build and improve streets, lanes, alleys and all other
public thoroughfares, and to lay and place sewers anywhere in said terri-
tory, and to build bulkheads and fill in the parts of said suburban terri-
tory on Cambridge Creek, and to make any kind of necessary public
improvements in said suburban territory, for the purpose of promoting the
general welfare, both of the people residing in said suburban territory and
in said urban territory, and the property therein, and for the purpose of
preparation for the development of the said suburban territory with a
view to its becoming urban territory in the course of time.*

44. Vacant.

1900, ch. 339, sec. 43. 1902, ch. 521, sec. 43. 1910, ch. 81, sec. 43 (p. 779).

45. Cambridge shall be divided into five wards, bounded as follows:
First Ward: This ward begins at the foot of Gay Street; thence runs
out to the middle of Cambridge Creek in a due east course; thence down
the said creek to its mouth; thence out into the Choptank River North
41° 21' East to the middle thereof; thence down the middle of said river
to the western limits of the town; thence with the said western limits to a
stone on the north edge of Glasgow Street extended; thence South 21° 40'
West until it intersects a line drawn from the southeast corner of Gay
Alley and High Street parallel with Glasgow Street; thence with the said
line reversed, parallel with Glasgow Street, in a southeasterly direction to
the northwest edge of High Street; thence with the northwest edge of
High Street to Court Lane; thence with Court Lane to the beginning.

*Sec. 42, sub-sec. 4, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.