1890 TALBOT COUNTY. [ART. 21.

1888, ch. 448.

174. The county commissioners are authorized to condemn
the land lying on the south side of the public road from Easton
to Easton Point, beginning with west side of Washington street
in said town of Easton, and ending with the west boundary of
I. Edward Beckwith's property, at Easton Point, for the purpose
of widening the public road between those two points, notwith-
standing the same may embrace buildings, yards and gardens;
and the same proceedings now required by law to be had by said
commissioners for opening and altering public roads in said
county shall be followed in condemning the land aforesaid.

ST. MICHAELS.

1880, ch. 105.

175. The citizens of the town of St. Michaels, in Talbot
county, are a body corporate by the name of "The Commissioners
of St. Michaels," with all the privileges of a body corporate, and
may have and use a common seal and have perpetual succession,
and sue and be sued.

" Ibid.

176. The bounds and limits of said town of St. Michaels shall
be as described on the plat and survey thereof on record in the
office of the clerk of the circuit court for Talbot county, and
also all the lands embraced within the following limits: begin-
ning on Talbot street at a stone which limits the original
corporation, as described on the plat thereof in the office of the
clerk of the circuit court, at the northeast corner of a lot of
ground belonging to the heirs of Richard Harrington, on said
street, and running south eighty-three degrees, west two hun-
dred and forty feet, to New street, crossing said street a space oi
sixty feet and continuing beyond or west of said street one hun,
dred and twenty feet; thence parallel with Talbot street, north
two and a half degrees, west eight hundred and forty-five feet,
to Church Neck road; thence crossing said road north twenty
degrees, west three hundred and fifty-six feet, to the division lino,
between the lands of "William Jones and John N. Hambleton;
thence south eighty seven and a half degrees, east two hundred
and eighty feet, to Talbot street, including that portion of the