WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 339
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of Ocean City," in "Worcester county, be and they
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Constituted
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are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name
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body corpo-
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of " The Commissioners of Ocean City," and by that
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rate.
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name may sue and be sued, have and use a common
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seal and have perpetual succession.
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SEC. 2. And te it enacted, That the bounds and
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Bounds and
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limits of the said town are as follows, to wit : Be-
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limits.
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ginning at a point in Synepuxent Bay at or near
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the easternmost end of the Ocean City Bridge Com-
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pany's bridge, and from thence by and with the
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waters of said bay in a southerly direction to the
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south side line of the lands conveyed by " Stephen
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Faber " to Granville Stokes, in a deed dated August
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the twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-
nine, thence by and with said south side line in an east-
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erly direction, and a continuation of the same across
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Atlantic avenue to the Atlantic Ocean, thence by
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and with the waters of the same in a northerly di-
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rection to the north side line of the lands conveyed
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by said Faber to Hillary E. Pitts, Benjamin Jones
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Taylor and George W. Purnell, trustees, by deed
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dated July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and
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seventy-six, thence by and with said north side line
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north seventy-six and one-eighth degrees west, across
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the beach to Synepuxent Bay, then down by and
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with the waters of said bay in a southerly direction
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to the first beginning, at the easternmost end of the
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Ocean City Bridge Company's bridge ; and the com-
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missioners of said town, as hereinafter provided for,
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shall have a survey made by a competent surveyor
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Survey to be
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of all the streets and avenues of said town, and shall
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made.
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have a stone placed at the north and south sides of
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the streets, bearing westerly from Atlantic avenue
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in said town, and at the east end thereof, at the in-
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tersection of said streets bearing westerly with At-
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lantic avenue.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the legal voters
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of Ocean city who have resided within its corporate
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Elect com-
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limits six months preceding the election, and the
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missioners.
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male citizens of Worcester county, who own any
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interest in real estate or in houses in said town, of
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the age of twenty-one years and upward, shall, on
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the first Monday in May, in the year eighteen hun-
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dred and eighty, and shall every two years thereaf-
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