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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP 549

and received thereby under the authority of law. And the
said body corporate shall have perpetual succession, and by
the said name may sue and be sued, and they may purchase
and otherwise acquire for corporate purposes, and they may
hold and possess property, real, personal and mixed, and
they may sell, dispose of and convey said property for the
benefit of said town, and they may use a corporate seal, and
may alter the same at pleasure.
Section 203. The corporate limits of Pocomoke City shall
include all the land and territory contained and embraced

Corporate
limits.

within the following metes and bounds, courses and dis-
tances, to wit: Beginning at the county wharf on the Poco-
moke river and running thence by and with the said river up
to the bridge causeway; thence by and with the west side of
the said causeway to a bridge over Terrapin gut twenty-one
rods northwest of the residence of the late William H.
Merrill; thence north, fifty-five and one-half degrees, east
one hundred and twenty-eight perches to an old red oak
standing on the northeast side of a road leading to Dr.
Hearn's house to Winter Quarter Landing; thence running
south twenty-two and one half degrees east, one hundred
and seventy -four perches; thence south forty-seven degrees
west, two hundred and seventy-three perches, to a ditch on
the edge of a red hill in the field of the late William J.
Long; thence north fifty-five degrees, one hundred and
seventy perches to the Pocomoke river aforesaid, and thence
up the said river, and by and with the said river, to the place
of beginning.

Section 204. The corporate authority, government, rights,

How vested.

powers and prerogatives of the said town shall be vested in
and exercised by one person, who shall be Mayor of said
town, and three persons, who shall be Councilmen, all whom
shall be elected as hereinafter provided, and posess the quali-
fications hereinafter set forth; no one shall be eligible to be
elected to the office of Mayor unless on the day of the elec-
tion whereon he is elected he shall be a qualified voter to
vote at the municipal election of said town and is then at
least thirty years of age and unless he or his wife owns
property which is assessed on the assessment books of said
town as worth, at least five hundred dollars; and no person
shall be eligible to the office of Councilman unless at the
date of such election he shall be a voter, and either he or his