2082 WICOMICO COUNTY. [ART. 23.
1876, ch 43.
129. If any such dam or bridge shall get out of repair, and
the owner, on notice from the road supervisor or county commis-
sioners, shall neglect for the space of sixty days to repair the
same, the county commissioners shall proceed to make such re-
pairs, and the owner shall be bound to pay them for such outlay
on account thereof, and the same may be collected as taxes, unless
the mill shall be abandoned with its privileges, in which case the
owner shall be released.
SALISBURY.
1872, ch. 230. 1888, ch. 186.
130. The inhabitants of Salisbury, Wicomico county, are made
and declared a body corporate by the name of the " Mayor and
Council of Salisbury," and by that name shall have perpetual
succession, may sue and be sued, use a common seal and possess
euch powers, privileges and incidents as may attach by law to
a municipal corporation; may purchase and hold real, personal
and mixed property, and dispose of the same for the benefit of
the said town.
1888, ch. 186.
131. The government of said town shall be vested in a mayor
and five councilmen, to be selected as hereinafter provided, who
shall be taxpayers and qualified voters of said town twelve months
next preceding their election, and their term of office shall be
two years, or until their successors are elected and qualified; pro-
vided, however, that three of the councilmen elected at the first
election held under this charter, which three shall be determined
by lot at their first regular meeting, shall hold their office for the
term of one year only.
Ibid.
132. The taxable and corporate limits of said town shall begin
at a stone on the north side of the Steamboat road, now known
as Hill street, and on the east side of River street, near the
property known as "Oak Hill;" thence i-unning to a marked
white oak on the southeast side of the Snow Hill county road;
thence north twenty-five degrees, east to the south side of the
Berlin county road; thence to the west side of Gordon H. Toad-
vin's mill-pond, to a point where the division line formerly ex-
isted, between the lands of Benjamin Parsons and Susan Booth;
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