ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Chapter 210.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Sharptown,
Wicomico county.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the inhabitants of the
town of Sharptown, in Wicomico county, are
hereby constituted a body corporate by the
name of the "Commissioners of Sharptown,"
and by that name may have perpetual succes-
sion, sue and be sued, and have and use a com-
mon seal ; may purchase and hold real, personal
and mixed property, or dispose of same for the
benefit of the town.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the limits of

Sharptown in-
corporated.

said town shall begin at low water-mark, on the
south side of the Nanticoke river, and running
south twenty and one-half degrees east to the
north corner of the Jonathan J. Robinson lot,
and running the above-named courses, two hun-
dred and thirty-three perches, or until it comes
straight with the northwest end of John Mel-
son's land ; thence south seventy-two degrees,
west one hundred and eighty-nine perches to a
road ; thence north twenty and one-half degrees,
west one hundred and sixty-two perches with
the road to low water-mark ; thence up the Nan-
ticoke river to the beginning. The commission-
ers hereafter to be elected may make such alter-
ations in said limits as they may deem advisa-
ble, and cause the same to be surveyed and the
boundaries thereof to be established, and the
record thereof to be filed amongst the records
of the corporation.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the male citi-

Limits.

zens of said town of the age of twenty-one
years and upwards, having resided therein for
the space of twelve months next preceding the
first Monday in June next may, on that day,
at the usual place of holding the general elec-
tions in said town, and on the first Monday in
June in each and every year thereafter, be au-
thorized to elect five commissioners for said
town, who shall have resided within the limits
of the same for at least two years next preceding
the election.

Elect commis-
sioners.