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1790 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 20.
1886, ch. 506.
94. In order to provide money for the punctual payment of
the interest on said bonds or certificates, and to create a sinking
fund to pay the principal thereof at maturity, the wharf charges
authorized to be collected under this sub-title of this article, and
such sum as may be annually levied by the county commission-
ers, to reimburse said town commissioners for the expense of
keeping up and repairing the county roads within the limits of
said town, are hereby pledged and set apart to be used by said
town commissioners in paying the interest regularly, and the
balance shall be invested for the purpose of creating a sinking
fund to retire said bonds at maturity.
Ibid.
95. The limits of said town shall be defined as beginning at a
post on Long Point, on Little Annamessex river; thence running
eastward across said river to a post on what is known as Ham-
mock Point; thence by a straight line touching the southeast
corner of Henry F. Jewell's house, where he now resides, to the
new county road running from the high school to Asbury church;
thence from said point on said county road by a straight line to
a point on the east side of the Eastern Shore railroad, and the
north side of the new county road running through the lands of
James H. Ward to Mariner's church, where the said railroad
and county road intersect each other, and from said intersection
by a straight line to the most westerly point of land or marsh
projecting into the Little Annamessex river, on the west side
thereof, near David Marsh's house, northward of the said town
of Crisfield; and thence in a straight line to the bounds of said
town, set up on Long Point; and thence to the beginning; pro-
vided, that the consent of the people be first given by ballot to
be taken as judges of election by two justices of the peace of
Somerset county, to be appointed by the commissioners of Cris-
field, under reasonable regulations to be prescrible by said com-
missioners ; and in case the majority of the people in the territory
named above, outside of the present limits of Crisfield, shall vote
for annexation, then the limits of said town shall be as above;
but until a majority shall so vote, the limits of said town shall bo
and remain as they now are; and all male citizens of Somerset
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