FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

real, personal and mixed property, and dispose of the same for
the benefit of the said town.

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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the government of said
town shall be vested in a mayor and five councilnen, to be
selected as hereinafter provided, who shall be taxpayers and
qualified voters of said town twelve months next preceding
their election, and that their term of office shall be two years
or until thtir successors are elected and qualified; provided,
however, that three of the conncilmen elected at the first
election held under this act, which three shall be determined
by lot at their first regular meeting, shall hold their office for
the term of one year only.

Government
of town.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the taxable and corporate
limits of said town shall begin at a point on the Pocomoke
river, north forty six degrees west from the (north) corner
of a bridge on the county road leading to Newark, said bridge
being north twenty and one-half degrees east from the west
corner of the residence of James Burroughs and being over a
ditch called the Tax ditch; thence south forty-six degrees east
to the west corner of said bridge; thence running the follow-
ing courses and distances, to wit : south thirty nine degrees
east, one hundred and thirty-six and one-half poles to the
county road leading from Snow Hill to Patty's bridge, where
the line between the Burroughs and Morse lands intersects
said county road; thence south twenty-one degrees west,
eighty-six poles to a wild cherry tree; thence continuing same
course forty-three and one-half poles to a persimmon tree ;
thence south twenty-five degrees west one hundred and thirty-
eight poles to a corner where the Virginia road and the cross-
road leading from New Lane intersect; thence across the lot
belonging to Frank Bailey, south sixty-five degrees west thirty-
four poles; thence south eighty-eight and one half degrees
west, thirty-seven poles; thence north twenty-nine degrees
west, seventy -four poles on the line dividing the property oi
Hugh S. Stevenson and Benjamin Spencer to the line of a lot
belonging to Dr. George W. Bishop; thence north sixty
degrees west one hundred and twenty poles to the run of a
branch opposite the house of William J. Scarboro, formerly
the Farrow house; thence with the east side of the run of said
branch to a branch near a gate in a road leading to the farm oi
George S. Richardson; thence north twenty-eight degrees west
to the Pocomoke river; thence with the south bank of said
river to the place of beginning.

Corporate
limits.