WORCESTER COUNTY. 5303

SNOW HILL.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 24, sec. 237. 1894, ch. 455. 1920 Code, sec. 391 1927, ch. 20.

295. The inhabitants of Snow Hill, Worcester County, Maryland, are
hereby made and declared a body corporate by the name of the "Mayor
and Council of Snow Hill," and by that name shall have perpetual suc-
cession and may sue and be sued, use a common seal, and possess such
powers and privileges and incidents as may attach by law to a municipal
corporation, may purchase or hold real, personal and mixed property and
may sell or dispose of the same, including any and all right, title and
interest of the Mayor and Council of Snow Hill in and to the existing
electric light plant and system, consisting of the real estate, power plant,
distribution and transmission lines, meters, appliances, fixtures, rights,
appurtenances, privileges, franchise or franchises and any other physical
property constituting or used in or about said electric light plant and
system or any part or parts thereof, if in the discretion of the said Mayor
and Council of Snow Hill any sale or sales thereof shall be for the benefit
of the said town, and provided any sale or disposition of said electric
light plant and system and franchise or franchises therefor shall be ap-
proved by the Public Service Commission of Maryland.

1894, ch. 455. 1920 Code, sec. 392. 1920, ch. 297, sec. 392.

296. The government of said town shall be vested in a Mayor and
three Councilmen, to be selected as hereinafter provided, who shall be
taxpayers and qualified voters of said town twelve months next preceding
their election, and that their term of office shall be two years or until
their successors are elected and qualified.

Position of councilman is "office of profit." Truitt v. Collins, 122 Md. 532. Wor-
cester Electric Co. v. Hancock, 151 Md. 671

1894, ch. 455. 1920 Code, sec. 393.

297. The taxable and corporate limits of said town shall begin at a
point on the Pocomoke River, north forty-six degrees west from the
(north) corner of a bridge on the county road leading to Newark, said
bridge being north twenty and one-half degrees east from the west corner
of the residence of James Burroughs and being over a ditch called the
Tax ditch; thence south forty-six degrees east to the west corner of said
bridge; thence running the following courses and distances, to wit: South
thirty-nine degrees east, one hundred and thirty-six and one-half poles to
the county road leading from Snow Hill to Patty's bridge, where the line
between the Burroughs and Morse lands intersects said county road;
thence south twenty-one degrees west, eighty-six poles to a wild cherry tree;
thence continuing same course forty-three and one-half poles to a per-
simmon tree; thence south twenty-five degrees west one hundred and thir-

*Snow Hill has been authorized to issue bonds as follows: 1896, ch. 122, $18,000
for water supply; 1904, oh. 388, $15,000 for street improvements; 1908, ch. 355,
$6,000 for street Improvements; 1908, ch. 56, $18,000 of refunding bonds; 1920, ch.
491, $20,000 for light plant, subject to referendum.