ART. 13.] HAVRE DE GRACE. 1337
street, as designated on the map of Havre de Grace, made by
Septimus Morris, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-eight,
and running thence in a straight line with said street, northerly
three-fourths of a mile; thence easterly, parallel with Huron
street, to the east side of the embankment of the Tidewater canal;
thence by and with said embankment and improvements of said
embankment to the outlet and lock of said canal; thence by and
with the Susquehanna river and Chesapeake bay to the east end
of Pocomoco street; thence by and with Pocomoco street until it
intersects Columbia street; thence in a straight line to the inter-
section of Alliance and Lycoming streets; and thence by and
with Lycoming street, to the place of beginning.
1878, ch. 440.
139. The property, funds and securities of every kind hereto-
fore belonging to the commissioners of Havre de Grace under
their act of corporation, are vested in the corporation created
Tinder this sub-title of this article; and the said mayor and city
council of Havre de Grace may receive in trust, and may control
for the purpose of such trust, all money or other property which
may have been or shall be bestowed upon such corporation by
will, deed, or in any other form of gift or conveyance, in trust
for any general corporation purpose, or in aid of the indigent poor,
or for the general purposes of education, or for charitable pur-
poses of any description, within the said city; and the said
corporation may lease or otherwise dispose of any property
belonging to the city, having first complied with the require-
ments of section 137, and having afterwards given public notices
of such proposed lease or sale in one or more of the public news-
papers of said city, at least once a week for three successive weeks
before such lease or sale.
Ibid.
140. All male citizens above the age of twenty-one years, who
shall have bona fide resided in said city for one year, and one
year in the State next preceding the election, shall elect by
ballot, on the first Monday in January in each year, at such place
as may be designated by the corporation, and after at least two
weeks' public notice given by them, a mayor and six members of
the city council, to be qualified as hereinafter prescribed.
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