1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 379.

B. Calvert, Hanson Penn, Benjamin O. Lownds,
Charles H. Carter, and Richard H. Stuart, in confor-
mity with the rules prescribed by the above recited
act.

Real estate.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said company
shall have the right to purchase and hold land in the
county of Prince George's, not exceeding one thou-
sand acres.

In force.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall be
in force from the passage thereof.

CHAPTER 378.

Passed April 5,
1839.

An act to alter the place of holding Elections in the fifth,
or Parson's district, in Worcester County.

Place prescribed.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the place for holding all elections, after the pas-
sage of this act, in the fifty, or Parson's district, in
Worcester county, shall be at the tenement or house,
now and heretofore occupied as an office, by Levin G.
Irving, and Zedekiah H. Williams, adjoining the tav-
ern house of Bennet L. Fish, in the town of Salisbury,
in said county, and all laws or parts of laws inconsist-
ent with this act, be, and the same are hereby repeal-
ed.

CHAPTER 379.

Passed April 5,
1839.

An act to authorize the Mayor and Councilmen of the
Town of Cumberland, to open and keep open, all the
public Streets, Lanes and Alleys in the Town of Cum-
berland, and for other purposes.

Powers conferred.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the mayor and council men of the town
of Cumberland, be, and they are hereby authorized,
in their discretion, to have opened, and keep open all
the public streets, lanes and alleys within the corporate
jurisdiction of the said town, any law now in existence
to the contrary notwithstanding.