2136                               Municipal Charters

Beach," with all the privileges of a body corporate, by that name to sue
and be sued, to plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity, to
have and use a common seal and to have perpetual succession, unless the
charter and the corporate existence are legally abrogated.

CORPORATE LIMITS

2.    The courses and distances showing the exact corporate limits of
the town shall be filed at all times with the Clerk of the Circuit Court in
Calvert County, the Commissioner of the Land Office and the Director of
the Department of Legislative Reference. In addition, a copy of the courses
and distances describing the corporate boundaries shall be on file in the
office of the Mayor or of the Town Clerk. All the officials named in this
section are hereby directed to file or record all such descriptions of cor-
porate boundaries so filed with them, each in a suitable book or place,
properly indexed and reasonably available for public inspection during
normal business hours. The limits of the Town of North Beach shall in-
clude all the territory within the following boundaries:

The boundary limits of North Beach shall be as follows: So much of
the land embraced in the subdivision heretofore called "North Chesapeake
Beach," and shown on a plat thereof, recorded among the Land Records
of Calvert County aforesaid, in Liber G.W.D. No. 1, folio 497, which lies
east of the west line of Detroit Avenue as shown on said plat (the said
Detroit Avenue now being known as Greenwood Avenue), together with
the portion of the Chesapeake Bay abutting thereon, eastward for a dis-
tance of five thousand feet. The said town shall have and exercise full
police powers within and for a distance of five thousand feet beyond the
land boundaries thereof.

THE COUNCIL

3.    Number; election; term: All legislative powers of the Town shall
be vested in a Council consisting of six Councilmen who shall be elected
as hereinafter provided and who shall hold office for a term of two years
or until the succeeding Council takes office. The regular term of Council-
men shall expire on the second Monday in November following the election
of their successors. Councilmen holding office at the time this Charter
becomes effective shall continue to hold office for the term for which they
were elected and until the succeeding Council takes office under the pro-
visions of this Charter.

4.    (Qualifications of Councilmen): Councilmen shall have resided
in the Town for at least one year immediately preceding their election and
shall be qualified voters of the Town and shall own property in said town
to the assessed value of $500.00.

5.    (Salary of Councilmen): Each Councilman may receive an an-
nual salary which shall be equal for all Councilmen and shall be as specified
from time to time by an ordinance passed by the Council in the regular
course of its business; provided, however, that the salary specified at the
time any Council takes office shall not be changed during the period for
which that Council was elected. The ordinance making any change in the
salary paid to the several Councilmen, either by way of increase or de-
crease, shall be finally ordained prior to the municipal election for the
members of the next succeeding Council and shall take effect only as to the
members of the next succeeding Council.