ART. 6.] DENTON. 649

DENTON.

1884, ch 367.

72. The inhabitants of the town of Denton, in Caroline

county, are a body corporate by the name of the " Commissioners
of Denton," and by that name may sue and be sued, may pur-
chase and hold real, personal and mixed property, and dispose of
the same for the benefit of said town, and may have and use a

common seal, which may be altered at pleasure

Ibid.

73. All property and funds of every kind belonging to or in
possession of the town of Denton, are vested in the said corpora-
tion ; and said corporation may receive in trust, and may control,

for the purpose of such trusts, 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, for any
general corporation purpose, or in aid of the indigent and poor,
or for charitable purpose, within said village; and the said corpo-
ration may lease or otherwise dispose of any property now
owned or which may be hereafter acquired by said town,
having first given public notice of such lease or sale in one or
more of the newspapers printed in Caroline county, once a week

for three successive weeks before such lease or sale.

Ibid.

74. The boundaries and limits of said town shall be as hereto-

fore fixed, established and described as per plats and surveys
thereof recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for
Caroline county, and also by the following metes and bounds,

courses and distances, to wit: Beginning at the end of the first
line of the original survey of the limits of said town, recorded in
Iiber T. R. number I, folio 526, and from thence running south
twenty-one and one-quarter degrees, west forty-two perches;
thence south sixty-seven and one-half degrees, east one hundred
and forty-five and one-half perches; thence north twenty-three
and one-fourth degrees, east forty-two perches, to the corner of
the lines extending the limits of said town, under the act of 1831,
chapter 138; thence south sixty-seven and one-half degrees, east
sixty perches; thence north twenty-three and one-fourth degrees,