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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 313.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Perryville,

Cecil county, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

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

ville, in Cecil county, shall be, and they are hereby

Made a body
corporate.

made, a body corporate by the name and style of the

" Commissioners of Perryville," and by that name

may sue and be sued, may grant, receive and do all

other acts as natural persons, and may purchase and

hold real, personal and mixed property, or dispose

of the same for the benefit of said town, and may

have and use a common seal, which may be broken

or altered at pleasure, and shall have perpetual

succession.

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

of said town shall be as follows: Beginning at a

point in the centre of the track of the Philadelphia,

Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company, at

the east end of the abutment of the bridge of said

company that crosses the Susquehanna river, and on

the east side of said river, and rnnning in an easternly

direction in the centre of the north bound track of

said company to a point under the west side of the

Taxable limits

bridge of John Stump, thence in a nortliwesternly
direction by a straight line to a large, flat stone in

or on the edge of a small run on the land of the

Misses Chamberlain, one hundred and fifty-seven

feet in an easternly direction from a very large pop-

lar tree that stands on the line between the lands of

the said Misses Chamberlain and Doctor Virdin,

thence in a westernly direction, with and bounding

on said run and on the south side thereof until it

empties into the Susquehanna river twenty feet

north of the ice houses and wharf of Cochran & Co ,

thence with and bounding on the Susquehanna river

to the place of beginning.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the male citizens

of the United States of the age of twenty-one years

and upwards, who shall have resided in the town of

Perryville one year next preceding the election, and

all male citizens of the United States of the age of

twenty-one years and upwards who own real estate