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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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Chapter 367.
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AN ACT for the better regulation and improvement
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of the town of Denton, extending the bounds thereof,
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and incorporating the same.
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SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly
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of Maryland, That the inhabitants of the town of
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Denton, in Caroline county, are a body corporate by
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the name of the " Commissioners of Denton," and by
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that name may sue and be sued, may purchase and
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hold real, personal and mixed property, or dispose of
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Commission-
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the same for the benefit of said town, and may have
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ers of Denton
incorporated.
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and use a common seal, which may be altered at pleas-
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ure, and the said corporation may organize, proceed
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and act through its commissioners to be selected as
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hereinafter provided; and the persons now acting as
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commissioners of Denton are hereby declared to be
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such, and shall hold office until their successors are
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duly qualified.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all property and
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funds of every kind belonging to or in possession of
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the town of Denton, and all taxes levied and assessed
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by the commissioners now acting or their predecessors
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are vested in the said corporation; and said corpora-
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Receive in trust
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tion may receive in trust and may control, for the
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purpose of such trusts all money or other property,
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which may have been or shall be bestowed upon such
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corporation by will, deed or in any other form of gift
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or conveyance for any general corporation purpose,
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or in aid of the indigent and poor, or for charitable
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purpose, within said village and the said corporation
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may lease or otherwise dispose of any property now
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owned or which may be hereafter acquired by said
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Give public no-
tice.
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village, having first given public notice of such lease
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or sale, in one or more of the newspapers printed in.
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Caroline county, once a week for three successive
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weeks before such lease or sale.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the boundaries and
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limits of said town shall be as heretofore fixed, estab-
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Boundaries and
limits.
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lished and described as per plats and surveys thereof
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recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court
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for Caroline county, and also by the following metes
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and bounds, courses and distances, to wit : Beginning
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at the end of the first line of the original survey of
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