SOMERSET COUNTY. 4381

CRISFIELD.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 54. 1886, oh. 506. 1910, ch. 529, sec. 54 (p. 1078).

50. The inhabitants of the City of Crisfield, Somerset County, are
hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of the Mayor and Coun-
cil of Crisfield, 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 incident to or that may attach to a municipal corpora-
tion, and upon the acceptance of this charter the new corporation shall
have and possess all the rights, powers, property and duties devolving upon
the Commissioners of Crisfield, except as the same may be changed by
this Act.

1910, ch. 52,9, sec. 55 (p. 1078).

51. The taxable and corporate limits of said City of Crisfield shall
comprise the territory now known as "Crisfield," to wit: Beginning at
a post on Long Point, on Little Annamessex river; thence running east-
ward across said river to a post on what is known, as Hammock Point;
thence by a straight line touching the southeast corner of Henry F. Jewitt's
house to the new county road from the High School to Asbury Church;
thence by a straight line to a point on the east side of the New York,
Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad and the north side of the new county
road through the land of James H. Ward to Mariners' Church, where the
said railroad and county road cross each other, and from the said inter-
section by the dividing line between Crisfield and Lawson's Election Dis-
tricts, running to the Little Annamessex river; thence by a straight line
to the said Long Point; and all officers and employees of the Town of
Crisfield shall continue to hold, exercise and discharge the present duties
of their respective offices and positions until they shall be superseded,
under the provisions of this Act, or until their successors shall be duly
elected or appointed and qualified.

1910, oh. 529, sec. 56 (p. 1079).

52. All property, franchises and funds of every kind belonging to or
in the possession of the Commissioners of Crisfield are vested in this cor-
poration, and this corporation may receive in trust and may hold and
control for the purpose of such trust all moneys or other property which
may have been or shall be bestowed upon such corporation by will, deed
or any other form of gifts or conveyances in trust for any general corpo-
rate purpose, or in aid of the indigent poor, or for general purposes of
education, public improvements or for charitable and benevolent purposes
of any description for the benefit of said city or its inhabitants; and the
said corporation may buy any property it may deem necessary, and may

*Crisfield has been authorized to issue bonds as follows: 1910, ch. 98, 520,000 of
refunding and improvement bonds; 1914, ch. 752, $10,000 for water mains and
wharf; 1920, ch. 608, $10,000 for bridge; 1922. ch. 459, $25,000 for floating indebted-
ness; 1924, oh. 101, $5,000 of refunding bonds; 1927, oh. 51, $20,000, and ch. 81,
$30,000 for public improvements; $1929, ch. 66, $20,000 for paving.