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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 434.

AN ACT to repeal an act passed at January ses-

sion, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter

one hundred and seventy-four, entitled " An act

to incorporate the town of Union Bridge,

in Carroll county," and to re-enact the same with

amendments and additional sections.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ty the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the act passed at January

Sections en-

session, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter

acted in lieu.

one hundred and seventy-four, entitled "An act to

incorporate the town of Union Bridge, in Carroll

county," be and the same is hereby repealed and

the following sections enacted in lieu thereof:

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants

of the town of Union Bridge, in Carroll county,

are a body corporate by the name of " the Mayor

and Common Council of the town of Union Bridge,"

and by that name shall be able in law to sue and be

Body corpo-
rate.

sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or

in equity, and shall have perpetual succession, and

may piirchase and hold real and personal and mixed

property, or dispose of the same for the use and

benefit of the said town, and may have and use a

common seal, which may be altered at pleasure.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the corporate

bounds of said town shall be as laid down and de-

scribed on the plot of said town of Union Bridge,

recorded in office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court

for Carroll county; provided, however, that for all

Corporate

sanitary and police purposes, the mayor and com-

bounds.

mon council shall have and may exercise full au-

thority and control for one half mile in every direc-

tion beyond the bounds aforesaid, and they may

have the same authority and control for the same

distance, as above, beyond the bounds of any lands

taken into the said corporation under this charter.