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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

district as provided in this act, but shall also on and

after the first day of May, in the year eighteen hun-

dred and seventy-nine, apply to every election

district in said county wherein the sale of liquor and

other fermented spirits is now licensed by law, unless

the status of such election district shall be hereafter

changed as elsewhere provided in this act ; and in

every election district of said county wherein pro-

hibition of the sale of liquors, &c., now or hereafter

may be declared by law, such prohibition shall be

construed with the limitations and exceptions set

forth in sections four and five of this act, on and

after May first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine,

any previous law to the contrary notwithstanding.

In force.

SEC. 12. A nd be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1878.

CHAPTER 463.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Taneytown, in

Carroll county, State of Maryland.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the citizens of the town of Taney-

Constituted

town, in Carroll county, Maryland, are hereby con-

a body corpo-

stituted a body corporate by the name of the

rate.

Commissioners of Taneytown, and by that name

may have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, and

have and use a common seal, and may purchase and

hold real, personal and mixed property, not to ex-
ceed the sum of one thousand dollars, and may

dispose of same for the benefit of said town.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the taxable limits

Taxable

of said town shall be as follows : Commencing at

limits.

the west corner of William Hill's residence and

running along the main street to the residence of

Adam Clark and John Baird, including both the