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1922, ch. 96, sec. 5.

5. Whenever there shall be or may have been any territory laid out
and platted into lots adjoining said City of Cumberland, and a record of
the same shall have been made in the Clerk's office of Allegany County,
the said Mayor and City Council may, upon the application of a majority
of the property owners in such contiguous territory so laid off and platted
and recorded, by an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council extend the
boundary of said City of Cumberland so as to include the territory so
prayed to be admitted as part of said city, and the territory thus annexed
shall thereafter form a part of said city and be within the jurisdiction of
the same, and the said Mayor and City Council shall immediately file a
copy of such ordinance with the metes and bounds of such territory so
added in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany County,
where the same shall be recorded by the Clerk of said county.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 6.

6. The said Mayor and City Council shall have jurisdiction for one
mile beyond the city limits, as now located or as they may hereafter be
located, for the removal and abatement of nuisances; for the licensing,
regulating or prohibiting of circuses, carnivals and all similar amuse-
ments; for the licensing, regulating or prohibiting restaurants, soda foun-
tains, soft drink parlors, and all similar places where food or drink is
disposed of; for the licensing, regulating or prohibiting poolrooms, dance
halls, moving picture theatres, and all similar places of public amusement;
to carry out and enforce all sanitary regulations, and for the apprehension
of disorderly persons, vagrants and their associates, and for the suppres-
sion of bawdy houses, disorderly houses and houses of ill-fame.

1922, ch. 96. sec. 7.

7. The property and funds of every kind belonging to or in posses-
sion of said city are vested in said corporation, and said corporation may
receive in trust and control for the purpose thereof all money or other
property which may have been or shall be bestowed on such corporation
by will, deed, gift, or conveyance in trust for the general corporation pur-
poses or in aid of the indigent poor, or for the general purposes of educa-
tion, or for charitable purposes of any description within the city.

WARDS.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 8.

8. The City of Cumberland shall be divided into six wards bounded
as follows, viz:

For the first ward, all that portion of the city lying on the west side
of Wills Creek; beginning for the second ward at the intersection of Bed-
ford (commonly called Mill) Street with Wills Creek and running with
said creek to the northwesterly limits of the city, and with said limits to
the Cumberland and Pennsvlvania Railroad to Bedford Street, and with