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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1894, and to repeal Section 169, Chapter 302, of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed the January
Session of 1892, and to repeal Sections 158, 161, 163, 164,
165, 166, 167 and 170 of Article 24 of the Code of Public
Local Laws, title "Worcester County," sub-title "Ocean City,"
and to re-enact the same with amendments, for the purpose
of reincorporating Ocean City, in Worcester County.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repeal.

land, That chapter 128 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January session of 1894, and sec-
tion 169, chapter 309, of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at the January session of 1892, and sec-
tions 158, 161, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167 and 170 of Article 24
of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Worcester County,"
sub-title "Ocean City," be and the same are hereby repealed.

Body
corporate.

SEC 2. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of "Ocean
City," in Worcester county, Maryland, are constituted a body
corporate by the name of Mayor and City Council of Ocean
City, and by that name may sue and be sued, have and use a
common seal, and have perpetual succession ; that the bounds
and limits of said city shall be as follows : Beginning at mean
low water mark in the Atlantic ocean, where the north line of
South Seventh street, extended, would strike said ocean ; thence
by and with such line extended, and the north line of South
Seventh street, in a westerly direction to Synepuxent bay, at
mean low water mark; thence by and with said "Synepuxent
bay at mean low water mark to the south line of North
Fifteenth street; thence by and with said south line of North
Fifteenth street, and said line extended to a point in the said
ocean at mean low water mark ; thence by and with said ocean
at mean low water mark to the beginning.

Mayor and
city council
to be
elected.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the legal voters of Ocean
City who have resided within the corporate limits six months
preceding an .election, and all male persons who own any
interest in real estate iu said city of the age of twenty-one
years and upwards, shall elect by ballot on the first Monday in
August, in 1898, and in every second year thereafter, one per-
son to be Mayor of paid city and three persons to be City
Council of said city, all of whom must be real estate owners in
said city, or interested therein, and one at least of said Coun-
cilmen must be a resident of said city, to serve for two years
from the second Monday in September next alter their election,
and until their successors are elected and qualified. If any