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and after the passage of this act, be called and known
by the name of Pocomoke City, and that the citizens
of said Pocomoke City, in said county, shall be and
they are hereby constituted and made a body cor- porate, by the name of the Commissioners of Poco-	Made a body corporate.
moke City, with all the privileges of a body corporate, and to have a common seal and perpetual succession.
SEC. 3. And te it enacted, That the free male cit-
izens of Pocomoke City aforesaid, of the age of twen-
ty-one years and upwards, being citizens of the
United States, who have resided in the said town
for or during the space of six months next preceding the first Monday in June next, may on that day, at	Elect com- missioners.
the academy in said town, and on the first Monday
in June in every second year thereafter, be author-
ized to elect five commissioners for said town, who
shall have resided within the limits of the same one
year next preceding the election.
SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the limits of said
town shall be defined as beginning at the county
wharf, on Pocomoke River at Pocomoke City, thence
up by and with the aforesaid river to the ferry cause-
way, thence by and with the same to a bridge over
a gut twenty-one rods northwest of Col. William H.
Merrill's residence, thence north fifty-five and one-
half degrees, east one hundred and twenth-eight	Limits.
perches to an old red oak standing on the northwest
side of a road leading to Dr. Harris' 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 William J. Long's field,
thence north fifty-five degrees, west one hundred
and seventy perches, to the aforesaid river, thence
up by and with the same to the first beginning.
SEC. 11. Be it enacted, That this act shall take	In force.
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1878.