ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Chapter 297.

AN ACT to repeal section seventy-two to ninety-
two, inclusive, of article nine of the Code of
Public Local Laws entitled " Charles County,"
sub-titled "Port Tobacco," and to re-enact
the following section in lieu thereof granting
a new charter of incorporation to the town of
Port Tobacco in said county.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

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bly of Maryland, That section seventy-two to
ninety-two, inclusive, of article nine of the
Code of Public Local Laws entitled "Charles
County," sub-titled "Port Tobacco," be and the
same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to
read as follows :
SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That the citizens of the

Repealed and
re-enacted.

village of Port Tobacco, in Charles county,
be and they are hereby created a body cor-
porate by " The name of the President and Com-
missioners of the Village of Port Tobacco,"
and that by that name may have perpetual suc-
cession, may sue and be sued, and may have
and use a common seal.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the limits of
the said village of Port Tobacco shall be as fol-
lows : Beginning at a stone and post now fixed
on the east side of the Port Tobacco canal as it

Incorporated.

now runneth, and running thence with the di-
viding line between the lands now in possession
of Henry G. Robertson and Doctor Robt. Diggs,
called and known as "Plenty," north eighty-
seven degrees twenty-five minutes, east twelve
hundred and fifty feet to a stone now fixed near
an old cherry tree ; thence leaving said lands
and running through the lands of the heirs of
James E. Wingate. known as "Mount Bleak,"
and the lands of H. Heber Boswell, known as
"Chandle's Hope," the following courses and
distances, to wit : South twenty degrees forty-
five minutes, west fourteen hundred and
thirty feet ; north sixty-five degrees thirty
minutes, west two hundred and seventy-
one feet ; south twenty-seven degrees fifty-
two minutes, west three hundred and

Corporate
limits.