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in the. limits of Harford County shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of ten
dollars for every such offense, together with the costs of prose-
cution, and upon failure to pay the same to be committed to
the county jail until fine and costs are paid.

HAVRE DE GRACE.

Section 276. The town of Havre de Grace is created a city
by the name of the city of Havre de Grace, and the inhabitants
thereof shall constitute a body politic and corporate, under the
name of "The Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace, "
and as such shall have succession, and by such name may sue
and be sued, may have and use a common seal, which may be
altered at pleasure, and may purchase and hold real, personal
and mixed property, and with the assent of a majority of the
legal voters of said city, first had and obtained at a general:
or special election, held after twenty days' public notice, may
dispose of any real estate for the benefit of said City.

Section 277. The limits of the City of Havre de Grace shall
be as follows: —Beginning for the same at the north end of
Lycoming street, as designated on the map of Havre de Grace,
made by Septimus Morris, in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty-eight, and running thence in a straight line with said
street, northerly three-fourths of a mile; thence easterly, par-
allel with Huron Street, to the east side of the embankment of
the Tidewater Canal; thence by and with said embankment
and improvements of said embankment to the outlet and lock of
said canal; thence by and with the Susquehanna River and;
Chesapeake Bay to the east end of Pocomoco Street; thence by
and with Pocomoco street until it intersects Columbia street:
thence in a straight line to the intersection of Alliance and
Lycoming streets; and thence by and with Lycoming street, to
the place of beginning.

Section 278. The property, funds and securities of every
kind heretofore belonging to the Commissioners of Havre de
Grace under their act of corporation, are vested in the corpo-
ration created under this sub-title of this article; and the said
Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace may receive in
trust, and may control for the purpose of such trust, all money
or other property which may have been or shall be bestowed
upon such corporation by will, deed, or in any other form of
gift or conveyance in trust for any general corporation pur-
pose, or in aid of the indigent poor, or for the general purposes.