ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
to repeal an act, to repeal, amend and re-enact

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the act entitled 'An act to revise the Act of In-
corporation of the Town of Salisbury, in Somerset
and Worcester counties, chapter three hundred
and fifty-six of Public Local Laws for Somerset
county, passed March the eighteenth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, and to add new sections
thereto ratifying and confirming certain acts of
the commissioners of said town, and for other
purposes, and to enact an act to Incorporate the
Town of Salisbury, in Wicomico county,' " be and
the same are hereby repealed and amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows :
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the inhabit-
ants of Salisbury, Wicomico county, Maryland,

What is re-
pealed, to.

are hereby made and declared a body corporate
by the name of the " Mayor and Council of Salis-
bury," and by that name shall have perpetual
succession, may sue and be sued, use a common
seal and possess such powers and privileges and
incidents as may attach by law to a municipal
corporation ; may purchase and hold real, per-
sonal and mixed property, and dispose of the
same for the benefit of the said town.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the government

Declared a
body corpor-
ate.

of said town shall be vested in a mayor and five
councilmen, to be selected as hereinafter pro-
vided, who shall be tax-payers and qualified
voters of said town twelve months next preced-
ing their election, and that their term of office
shall be two years, or until their successors are
elected and qualified ; provided, however, that
three of the councilmen elected at the first elec-
tion held under this act, which three shall be de-
termined by lot at their first regular meeting,
shall hold their office for the term of one year
only.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the taxable

Government—
who vested in.

and corporate limits of said town shall begin at
a stone on the north side of the Steamboat road,
now known as Hill street, and on the east side
of River street, near the property known as " Oak
Hill;" thence running to a marked white oak
on the southeast side of the Snow Hill county
road ; thence north, twenty-five degrees east, to
the south side of the Berlin county road ; thence
to the west side of Gordon H. Toadvin's mill-

Limits of town