5050 ARTICLE 23.

1916, ch. 416, sec. 5.

175. The County Commissioners of each of said Counties are hereby
fully authorized and empowered to levy iu their respective Counties upon
the swamp lands and lands drained in each district, such sum of money
as may be necessary to pay each county's proportion in payment of said
work, and the County Commissioners of each County are hereby fully
authorized to levy such sum of money in one year or extend it over a
period not exceeding five years in equal amounts each year with an addi-
tional sum each year to pay the interest upon the unpaid portions of said
money to be levied. And said County Commissioners in each of said
Counties are hereby authorized in making said levy upon said swamp lands
and lands drained, to have the right to levy upon each swamp district or
zone in each of said Counties, such proportion of said taxes as they may
deem proper according to benefits received so as to make said tax fair
and equitable.

1916, ch. 416, sec. 6.

176. Should the State of Maryland make an appropriation to aid in
this work, without declaring how the same shall be applied, then the same
shall be applied to the amount of debt incurred in each County in drain-
ing said swamp lands according to the number of acres of swamp land in
each of said Counties.

POWELLSVILLE.

1908, oh. 337, sec. 1 (p. 1091).

177. The inhabitants of the town of Powellsville, Wicomico county,
Maryland, are hereby created a body corporate by the name of "The
Commissioners of Powellsville," with all the powers and privileges of a
body politic and corporate and by said corporate name may have perpetual
succession, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or
equity, and have and use a common seal and purchase and hold real, per-
sonal and mixed property, and sell and dispose of the same for the benefit
of the town.

1908, ch. 337, sec. 2 (p. 1092).

178. The bounds and limits of said town shall be as follows: Be-
ginning for the outlines at a white gum standing on the east side of the
mill dam, the same being the fourth gum on east side of said dam from
south end next to the village; thence north sixty-eight degrees, west eigh-
teen perches; thence south seventy-eight degrees and thirty minutes, west
fifty-four perches to the west side of a private road leading to John
Powell's dwelling; thence south sixty-two degrees, west forty-four perches
to a small apple tree on west side Mrs. M. Adkin's lot; thence south six
degrees, west fifty perches to a well cruch in Paul Powell's barnyard;
thence south eighty-eight degrees, east sixty perches; thence south twenty-
five degrees and thirty minutes, east seventy-nine perches to the west side
of the schoolhouse lot; thence south eight and two-fifths perches with line