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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Proviso.

their first meeting determine by lot one of the said council-

men, whose office shall expire at the end of two years, from

the date of their election as councilmen, and who shall hold

their office for the term of one year and two years respectively.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the taxable and corporate

limits of said Pocomoke City, shall begin at the county

Limits of

wharf on Pocomoke River at Pocomoke City, and running

Pocomoke
City.

thence up by and with the said river to the bridge causeway,

thence by and with the western side of said causeway to a

bridge over Terrapin Gut, twenty-one rods northwest of the

residence of the late William H. Merrill, thence north, fifty-

five and one half degrees east, one hundred and twenty-eight

perches to an old red oak standing on the northwest side of

a road leading to Dr. Hearn's house to Winter Quarter

Landing, thence running south twenty-two and one half

degrees east, one hundred and seventy-four perches, thence

south forty -seven degrees west, two hundred and seventy-

three perches, to a ditch on the edge of a red hill, in the

field of the late William J. Long, thence north fifty-five

degrees west, one hundred and seventy perches to the afore-

said river, thence up by and with the same to the first

beginning.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the male citizens of Po-

comoke City above the age of twenty-one years, being citizens

Effective

of the United States, who have resided within the corporate

limits of said town six months next preceding the election,

and who were qualified voters at the last State or congres-

sional election, shall, on the first Tuesday in April, eighteen

hundred and ninety-two, and on the same day every second

year thereafter, elect by ballot one person to be mayor ; and

likewise on the said first Tuesday in April, eighteen hundred

and ninety-two, elect by ballot three persons to be council-

men, and on the same day in every year thereafter, elect by

ballot one person to be councilman to succeed the councilman

whose term of office is about to expire.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That any person elected

mayor or councilman shall, before he enters upon the duties

Oath

of his office, make oath before a notary public, resident in

said town, or a justice of the peace of Worcester County

that he will diligently and faithfully without favor or par-

tiality, perform the duties of mayor or councilman of said

town, a certificate of which oath shall be returmed by said

notary or justice to the clerk of the council, to be by him

filed and recorded in the proceedings of said mayor and

council.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That in the event of any

Vacancy.

vacancy in the office of mayor or council by death, removal,