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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said person or persons so offending shall be imprisoned

in the county jail in said county and state not less

than twenty days, or more than thirty days, for the

first offence; and not less than thirty days, or more

than sixty days, for the second offence; and not less

than sixty days, or more than ninety days, for the

third offence; and for each and every succeeding

offence the same as the third offence.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Etfective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 20, 1884.

Chapter 70.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Bishopville,

Worcester county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

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

opville, in Worcester county, be and they are hereby

Constituted a
body corporate.

constituted a body corporate by the name of " The

Commissioners of Bishopville," and by that name may

sue and be sued, have and use a common seal, and

have perpetual succession.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the bounds and

limits of the said town are as follows, to wit : begin-

ning at a crossing on the St. Martin's river, known as

the wading place, on the outskirts of said town, run-

ning thence a northeasterly direction to the east corner

of a graveyard in William H. Collins' field; thence

with a straight line to the Delaware line, where the

Bounds and

county road leading out of said .town intersects said

limits.

state line; thence with said state line to a bridge near

the house of James Timmons on the public road lead-

ing out of said town; thence with a straight line to

the house of William Taylor on a public road; thence

with a straight line to a bridge on the county road at

Tull's branch; thence to the aforesaid river and place

of beginning; and the commissioners of said town, as

hereinafter provided for, may make such alterations

in said limits as they may deem advisable, and' cause