THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 373.

AN ACT to change the name of the town of
George Town Cross Roads to that of Galena,
and to incorporate said Town.

Passed March
9, 1858.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the citizens of the town
of George Town Cross Roads, in Kent county,
would he greatly benefited by having the name
of said town changed and the powers of a cor-
poration given to said citizens; Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the name of the town of
George Town Cross Roads he and the same is
hereby changed to that of Galena.

Name changed.

SEC. 2. And be, it enacted, That the citizens of
said town be and they are hereby made and con-
stituted a body politic and corporate by the name
and style of the town commissioners of Galena,
Maryland, and as such shall exist and have succes-
sion, and by this their corporate name may sue
and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court
of law or equity, grant, receive, convey, bargain
and sell and hold real, personal and mixed pro-
perty and estate, and have a common seal, and the
same to alter at pleasure, and do all acts and things
for the benefit of said town as may not be incon-
sistent with this act or any law of Maryland, or
of the United States.

Incorporated.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That an election
shall be held on the first Monday of May, eigh-
teen hundred and fifty-eight, and on the first Mon-
day of May in each and every year thereafter for
the purpose of electing five persons out of the le-
gal voters of said town, as commissioners who shall
hold their office for one year, and until their suc-
cessors are chosen and qualified; said election shall
be presided over by a Judge who shall be one of
the Justices of the Peace for said county, and who
upon the written request of two thirds of the vo-
ters of said town shall give one week's notice by
posting handbills in said town, and hold said elec-
tion in some convenient place in said town, and
shall keep the polls open from two o'clock, P. M.,

Commission-
ers to be elect-
ed.