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	SECTION 1. Be, it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary- land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is	CHAP. 220
	hereby directed and required to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer to pay Lucinda Teat the sum of two hundred and fifty-three dollars and ninety-seven cents, being the amount paid by the said Lucinda Teat for and on the account of the forfeiture of the bail of the said Eugene Teat, and by the proper county authorities paid to the State of Maryland. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved April 5, 1906. CHAPTER 227. AN ACT to incorporate the Town of Betterton, in Kent County. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-	Warrant to be issued.
	land, That the inhabitants of Betterton, in Kent county, Maryland, be and they are hereby incorporated, and created a corporate body under the name and style of "The Com- missioners of Betterton," and by that name shall have per- petual succession, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity whatsoever; may purchase and hold real, personal and mixed property, and may sell and convey the same, and may have and use a common seal, and the same alter at pleasure. SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners of	Body corporate
	Betterton, as hereinafter named, shall forthwith define and locate the limits of said town, and shall have same filed and recorded in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for Kent county for reference. SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the legal voters of Better- ton who have resided within the corporate limits six months	Limits of town.
	preceding an election, and all persons who own any interest in real estate in said town, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, shall elect by ballot on the last Saturday of May of each year, commencing the last Saturday of May, 1906, three commissioners of the said town of Betterton, all of whom shall be qualified voters of said town elections, and above twenty-one years of age, and shall serve without pay. And until the last Saturday in May, 1906, Howard Turner,	Commission- ers to be elected.