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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 216.

AN ACT to repeal sections thirty-one to seventy-

three, inclusive, of the Public Local Code, title

"Dorchester County," sub-title " Cambridge," and

all acts amendatory thereto, and to re-enact the

following sections in lieu thereof:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That sections thirty -one to sev-

enty-three, inclusive, of the Public Local Code, title

"Dorchester County," sub-title " Cambridge," and

Repented and

all acts amendatory thereto, be and the same are

enacted in lieu

hereby repealed, and the following sections enacted

in lieu thereof:

31. The inhabitants of Cambridge, in Dorchester

county, are a body corporate by the name of " The

Commissioners of Cambridge," and as such shall

Body corpo-
rate.

have perpetual succession, and by that name may

sue and be sued, 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 com-

mon seal, which they may alter and break at

pleasure.

32. The corporate limits of Cambridge shall be

and are hereby extended so as to be included within

the following metes and bounds, courses and dis-

Corporate

tances, to wit: Beginning on the Choptank river,

limits.

in said county, at a point one hundred and fifty feet

distant northwesterly from the centre of " West End

avenue," as recently laid out by the "Building and

Loan Association of Cambridge, Dorchester county,"

and running in a parallel line with said avenue to

the south side of the county road, known as the

"Horns Point "road; then with the south side of

Metes and

said road to the present limits or line of the said

bounds.

town; thence running and binding with said line

to the western boundary of said town; thence run-

ning and binding with the southern and eastern

lines or limits of said town to the foot of Cemetery

avenue; thence across the creek and in a parallel

line with Maryland avenue to the county road,

leading from the avenue last aforesaid to the "Jack-

town" road; thence with the lands of W. Wilson

Byrn, and binding therewith to the Choptank river,