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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

recorded in the office of the clerk of the Circuit

Court for Allegany county, and said map, or a cer-

tified copy thereof, shall be prima facia evidence of

the contents thereof in any suit or suits, action or

actions in any court of law or equity in this State.

24. The property and funds of every kind belong-

Funds vested

ing to or in possession of said city are vested in said

in corporat'n.

corporation, and said corporation may receive in

trust and control for the purposes thereof all money

or other property which may have been or shall be

bestowed on such corporation by will, deed, gift or

conveyance in trust for the general corporation pur-

pose, or in aid of the indigent poor, or for the gen-

eral purposes of education, or for charitable purposes

of any description within the city.

25. The city of Cumberland shall be divided into

Wards — how

six wards, bounded as follows, viz : For the First

bounded.

ward, all that portion of the city lying on the west

side of Wills' creek ; beginning for the Second ward

at the intersection of Bedford (commonly called

Mills) street with Wills' creek, and running with

said creek to the northwesterly limits of the city,

and with said limits to the Cumberland and

Pennsylvania Railroad to Bedford street, and with

the centre of Bedford street to Mills' creek; be-

ginning for the Third ward at the intersection

of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad

with Bedford street, and running thence with the

centre of Bedford street and the Bedford road

northeastwardly to the city limits, and with said

limits westwardly to the Cumberland and Pennsyl-

vania Railroad, and with said railroad to the place

of beginning ; the Fourth ward shall comprise all

that portion of the city bounded on the west by

Wills' creek and lying between Bedford street and

Baltimore street, and the Baltimore turnpike to the

eastern limits of the city ; beginning for the Fifth

ward at the intersection of Baltimore street and

Wills' creek, and running with Baltimore street and

the Baltimore turnpike to the eastern limits of said

city, and with said limits to the Williams' road, and

with said road to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,

thence by a straight line with the centre line of said

Williams' road extended to the Potomac river, and

with said river and creek to the beginning ; and the