WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1309

are enacted 37 new sections to be known as Sections 138 to
155, inclusive, and Sections 155A to 155S, inclusive, of
said Article, and to read as follows:

Mardela Springs

138. The citizens of the Town of Mardela Springs, in
Wicomico County, Maryland, are hereby created a body
corporate by the name of "The Commissioners of Mardela
Springs", with all the powers and privileges of a body
politic and corporate, and by such corporate name shall
have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded in any court of law or equity, may have and use
a common seal, may purchase and hold real, personal and
mixed property, and sell and dispose of the same for the
benefit of the town and may own or lease suitable build-
ings for municipal purposes.

139. The limits of the said Town shall be as follows:

BEGINNING for the same on the Northerly side of Bar-
ren Creek at a stone settled at the corner of the land of James
E. Bacon, thence running in a Northerly direction by and
with the divisional line between the land of said James E.
Bacon and the land of Charles W. Bacon to the County
road leading from Mardela Springs to the Vienna Ferry,
thence on a continuation of the same line across the land
of L. A. Wilson to a ditch in the rear of the barn of the
said L. A. Wilson, thence in a Northeasterly direction to
the Southwest corner of the thicket of William T. Wilson,
thence in an Easterly direction to the Southeast corner
of the said thicket, thence in a Southeasterly direction to
the corner of the land of William M. Cooper and the land
of Clarence Glasgow, thence in a Southerly direction by
and with the divisional line between the said Cooper land
and the said Glasgow land to the Stone Road leading from
Mardela Springs to Salisbury, thence on a continuation
of the same line across the said Stone Road and across
the land of Virginia C, Graham to Barren Creek, thence
in a Southerly direction by and with said Barren Creek
to the Northeast corner of the lot of C. S. Gabler, thence
in a Southerly direction by and with the said Gabler lot
to the land of Mrs. M. E. Wilson, thence by and with the
line of the said Wilson land to the County Road, thence on
a continuation of the same line across the land of James T.
Hopkins to a private road about two hundred yards in the
rear of his house, thence in a Westerly direction in a
straight line to the old Venables Mill Race, thence in a
Northerly direction by and with the said Mill Race and
Barren Creek to the place of beginning.