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sue and be sued, have and use a common seal, which may be altered at
pleasure, and have all powers and privileges incident to or that may attach
to a municipal corporation.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 23, sec. 160. 1888, oh. 210. 1912, ch. 635, sec. 160.

347. The taxable and corporate limits of said town shall begin at low
water-mark, on the south side of the Nanticoke River, and running south
twenty and one-half degrees east to the north corner of the Jonathan J.
Robinson lot, and running the above-named courses, two hundred and thir-
ty-three perches, or until it conies straight with the northwest end of the
John Nelson land; thence south seventy-two degrees, west one hundred
and eighty-nine perches, to a road; thence north twenty and one-half de-
grees, west one hundred and sixty-two perches, with the road to low-Water
mark; thence up the Nanticoke River to the beginning. The commission-
ers hereafter elected to be elected may make such alterations in said limits
as they may deem advisable, and cause the same to be surveyed and the
boundaries thereof to be established, and the record thereof to be filed
amongst the records of the corporation.

1912, ch. 635, sec. 161.

348. All the property, franchises and funds of every kind belonging
to or in possession of the Commissioners of Sharptown are vested in this
corporation; and the said corporation may receive in trust and may con-
trol for the purpose of said trust all moneys or other property which may
have been or shall be bestowed upon such corporation by will, deed or
other form of gift or conveyance in trust, for any general corporate pur-
pose, or in aid of the indigent poor, or for the general purposes of educa-
tion, or for charitable purposes of any description, within said Town of
Sharptown; and the said corporation may buy any property it may deem
necessary so to do, and may sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any property
belonging to said corporation; provided that it shall not buy or dispose
of any property to the value of five thousand dollars, or over without first
submitting the question of buying or selling and disposing of said property
to the voters of Sharptown at a general or special election of which at least
twenty days' notice shall be given in the manner provided for holding-
general elections under this act.

1912, ch. 635, sec. 162.

349. The government of said town shall be vested in five commis-
sioners to be selected as hereinafter provided, who shall be taxpayers and
qualified voters of the town for twelve months next preceding their election,
and shall hold office for term of two years, or until their successors are
appointed or elected and qualified.

1912, ch. 635, sec. 163. 1916, ch. 491.

350. The male citizens of Sharptown, who have resided within the
corporate limits of said town for the twelve months next preceding any
local election, and who were qualified voters at the last preceding State