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westerly side of Green Street, or Beckford Avenue, at the middle of the
ditch, between the lands of Hon. Fillmore Lankford and Henry L. D.
Stanford, thence running by and with the middle of said ditch south 75°
40' west, to the point where this line intersects the tenth line, mentioned
in the return made by Leven Handy Littleton Long, Sr., and Nathaniel
Dixon, Jr., by virtue of a commission to them directed from the County
Commissioners of Somerset County, which said commission and return
are recorded in Liber L. W., No. 7, folios 506, 507 and 508, one of the
record books of said county; thence by and with the said tenth, eleventh,
twelfth and thirteenth lines mentioned in said return; thence by and with
the fourteenth line, mentioned in said returns, to the Manokin River;
thence by and with the northward and western sides of said stream to the
west side of Bombay Hook bridge; thence by and with the south side of
the stream, known as the canal, to the east side of the New York, Phila-
delphia and Norfolk Railroad; thence by and with the east side of said
railroad to the beginning of the third line, mentioned in said return;
thence by and with said third and fourth lines and fifth line, until it
strikes the east side of said railroad; thence by and with the east side of
said railroad to the north side of the county road leading from the rail-
road to David Ruche's woods; thence by and with the north side of said
county road to a point two hundred and twenty feet west of and from the
west side of said Green street, or Beckford avenue extended; thence by
and with and in parallel line with the western side of said Green street,
or Beckford avenue, and all the way two hundred and twenty feet at right
angles from said western side of said Green street, or Beckford avenue, to
the place of beginning.

P. L. L., 188, Art. 20, sec. 202. 1868, ch. 318. 1894, ch. 543, sec. 202.

305. The president and commissioners of said town may appoint a
clerk and prescribe his duties and allow him such compensation for his
services as they may think proper.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 203. 1868, ch. 318. 1894, oh. 543, sec. 203.

306. All ordinances passed by the president and commissioners shall
be entered by the clerk in. a book to be kept by him for the purpose; and
said ordinances or printed copies thereof shall be kept for the inspection
of any person interested.

1908, ch. 664, sec. 203A (p. 999).

307. The President and Commissioners of Princess Anne shall have
authority to grant franchises upon such terms as they may prescribe to
any person, persons or corporation, to establish a water works system in
the town of Princess Anne, and to lay water mains under the streets of
said town, and to convey water through pipes under the sidewalks of said
town to residences and other buildings.

1908, ch. 664, sec. 203B (p. 999).

308. The President and Commissioners of Princess Anne shall have
authority to grant franchises, upon such terms as they may prescribe, to