PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1575

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections one to twenty-seven, inclusive, of Chapter
689 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland for the
year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, being "An Act to in-
corporate the Town of Preston in Caroline County," and all
'amendments and additions thereto, except as hereinafter re-
tained and preserved, be and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments to be numbered Section one to
twenty-nine, inclusive, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the inhabitants of
Preston are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the
name of ''Commissioners of Preston," and by that name shall
have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, have and use
a common seal, which may be altered at pleasure, and have and
possess all powers incident to municipal corporations, as well
as those hereinafter particularly enumerated.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the limits of said
town shall be as follows:

Beginning for the first line at a point in the public road lead-
ing from Preston to Bethlehem, near the division line between
the land of Mrs. Mary A. Cox and L. P. Williams, and running
in a straight line, so as to include the canning house of Beverly
W. Wright within the corporate limits, to and across the Balti-
more and Eastern Shore Railroad, to a point where a line at
nearly a right angle with the first line will strike, the line be-
tween the lands of L. P. Williams and Isaac L. Noble, then with
said line to and across the public road leading from Preston to
Choptank, so as to include the residence and outbuilding of
Thomas H. Fluharty, and continue in a straight line to what
is known as the Back Landing Road, then northeast with said
road to the public road leading from Preston to Linchester, cross-
ing the said road at or near the Friends' Meeting House, and
continuing in a straight line on the lands of George F. Whitely,
to a point where a nearly right angle line, after crossing the
lands of the heirs of Dr. H. F. Willis, will strike the division
line between the lands of J. H, Douglass and E. T. Moore, and
continuing with said division line, and in a straight line, to and
across the public road known as the Church Road, across the
land of Joseph Douglass to the lane leading from his farm
house, then in a southwesterly direction, in a straight line to the
place of beginning.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the government of
said town shall be vested in and enforced by three Commis-