1840.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 78.

Repealed.

the times of the passage of this act shall be by him exe-

cuted, served and returned, as now provided by law.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid,
That so much of the said seventeenth section, as is incon-
sistent with this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 77.

Passed Feb. 19,
1841.

Divorced.

An act to divorce Catharine Berry, of the City of Balti-
mort, from her husband, William Berry.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Catharine Berry, of the city of Baltimore, be and
she is hereby divorced from her husband William Berry,
a vinculo matrimonii.

CHAPTER 78.

Passed Feb. 18,
1841.

An act to incorporate the Town of Jerusalem, commonly
called Funkstown, in Washington County.

Incorporated.

Name.

Legal capacity.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the citizens of the Town of Jerusalem,
commonly called and known by the name of Funkstown,
in Washington county, shall be and they are hereby made
and constituted a body corporate, by the name of the Bur-
gess and Commissioners of Jerusalem, and as such shall
have succession, and by their incorporate name, may sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded in the several courts
of this State, and may have and use a common seal, and
the same may alter and change at their pleasure.

Annual elec-
tion of officers.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the free white male citi-
zens of Jerusalem, of the age of twenty-one years and
upwards, and having resided twelve months in said town
next preceding the election, shall, on the first Monday in
May next, and on the first Monday in May, in each and
every year thereafter, elect by ballot, a burgess, assistant
burgess, and five commissioners for said town, who shall
have resided within the limits of said town twelve months
next preceding the election, and shall have attained the age
of twenty-one years.