5040 ARTICLE 23.

property, and in the event of no such claimant appearing within thirty
days then the balance after deducting costs, shall be paid into the school
fund for Wicomico County.

MARDELA SPRINGS.*

1927, ch. 268, sec. 1.

138. The citizens of the Town of Mardela Springs, in Wicomico
County, Maryland, be and they are hereby created a body corporate by
the name of "The Commissioners of Mardela Springs," with all the powers
and privileges of a body politic and corporate, and by such corporate name
shall have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded
in any Court of Law or Equity; may have and use a common seal; may
purchase and hold real, personal and mixed property, and sell and dis-
pose of the same for the benefit of the Town; and may own or lease suit-
able buildings for municipal purposes.

1927, ch. 268, sec. 2.

139. The limits of the said Town shall be as follows : Beginning for
the same on the North side of Barren Creek at a stone settled at the corner
of the land of James E. Bacon, thence running in a Northerly direction
by and with the divisional line between the land of said James E. Bacon
and the land of Charles W. Bacon to the County road leading from Mar-
dela Springs to the Vienna Ferry, thence on a continuation of the same
line across the land of L. A. Wilson to a ditch in the rear of the barn of
the said L. A. Wilson, thence in a Northeasterly direction to the South-
west corner of the thicket of William T. Wilson, thence in an Easterly
direction to the Southeast corner of the said thicket, thence in a South-
easterly direction to the corner of the land of William M. Cooper and
the land of Clarence Glasgow, thence in a Southerly direction by and
with the divisional line between the said Cooper land and the said Glas-
gow land to the Stone Road leading from Mardela Springs to Salisbury,
thence on a continuation of the same line across the said Stone Road and
across the land of Virginia C. Graham to Barren Creek, thence in a
Southerly direction by and with said Barren Creek to the Northeast cor-
ner of the lot of C. S. Gabler, thence in a Southerly direction by and with
the said Gabler lot to the land of Mrs. M. E. Wilson, thence by and with
the line of the said Wilson land to the County Road, thence on a continua-
tion of the same line across the land of James T. Hopkins to a private
road about two hundred yards in the rear of his house; thence in a
Westerly direction in a straight line to the old Venables Mill Race, thence
in a Northerly direction by and with the said Mill Race and Barren Creek
to the place of beginning.

1927, ch. 268, sec. 3.

140. The citizens of Mardela Springs of the age of twenty-one years
and upwards, who shall possess the qualifications of legally registered

*Ch. 325 of the Acts of 1906 provided for the incorporation of the town, but no
reference is made to this Act in oh. 26S of 1927.