| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all that part of
Baltimore county,
which lies within the following lines, shall be deemed, taken
and considered, as composing the city and precincts of Baltimore,
within the meaning and intent of this act; that is to say, bounded
on the north by a line, bound on the north by a line drawn parallel
with Baltimore-street in the said city, through a point one mile
and an half due north from the centre of Baltimore and Calvert-streets
in the said city, and extending eastwardly some hundred
perches from the said point to a public road passing from the Philadelphia
post road, between the dwellings of Amos Loney, Thomas
Worthington, and others, and westwardly six hundred and
forty perches from the same point, on the east, by a line binding
on the east side of said road, to the Philadelphia post road, and
from the Philadelphia post road, by a straight line, to the northeast
corner of the Lazaretto lot, including said lot, and then with
the lines of said lot to the Patapsco river, at the termination of the
last mentioned line, to the most southern part of Whitstone Point,
on the main branch of Patapsco river, and running with and
bounding on the said main branch, excluding the land ceded to the
United States on Whitestone Point, for the uses of a fort, to the
place called the Ferry Point, being the junction of the said main
branch with the middle branch aforesaid, and thence due west to
the westward side of the middle branch aforesaid, and on the west
by a line running from the termination of the last mentioned line
on the western shore of the middle branch, and binding on the said
shore to the mouth of Gwinn's Falls, thence up and with the southwest
side of Gwinn's Falls to a point opposite to the mouth of
Gwinn's Run, thence with a straight course to the mouth of
Gwinn's Run, and thence with a straight line to the end of the
aforementioned six hundred and forty perch line; and it shall be
the duty of the judges of the said court, as soon as practicable, to
cause the lines aforesaid to be surveyed, marked and bounded, and
two plots thereof to be made, one of which to be returned to the
office of the clerk of the said court, and the other to the office of
the register of the city of Baltimore, to be filed in their respective
offices. |
1816.
CHAP. 193.
Limits of city and
precincts. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the power,
jurisdiction and
authority, heretofore vested in, and exercised by, the Court of
Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery for Baltimore County, or
the judges thereof, in and over all that part of Baltimore county,
which is not included in the said city and precincts as above described,
shall be and are hereby vested in, and may be rightfully
exercised by, Baltimore county court, or the judges thereof, and
the expenses thereof shall be assessed upon the county and not
upon the city or precincts aforesaid. |
County court to
exercise certain
jurisdiction. |
