| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
CHAP. CCXVIII.
An Act relating to Streets in the City and Precincts of Baltimore.
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 371.
See 1816, ch. 209, and 1817, ch. 148. |
1816.
CHAP. 218.
Passed Feb. 3, 1817. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
John E. Howard, William Pattison, William Gibson, William
Lorman, Solomon Etting, George Warner, Owen Dorsey, George
Winchester, James Mosher, William McMechen, John Hillen, Joseph
Townsend and Henry Thompson, shall be and they are hereby
appointed commissioners, who shall cease to be surveyed and
laid off by the surveyor of the city of Baltimore, under their direction,
all that part of Baltimore county, which lies within the
following limits; that is to say, bounded 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
seven 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
north-east corner of the Lazaretto lot, including said lot, and then
with the lines of said lot to the Patapsco river; on the south by a
line drawn from 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 Whitstone 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 western
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 said lines shall be run according
to the true meridian and by horizontal measurement; and the said
commissioners shall lay out upon the whole ground contained within
the said boundaries, all such streets, lanes and alleys, as they
shall deem proper and convenient, and cause the same, and the
limits aforesaid, to be marked with so many and such durable land
marks, as they shall think necessary, and return plots if such
survey and location, with proper explanations, to the register of
the city of Baltimore, and the clerk of Baltimore county court, to
be by them respectively filed and preserved as other records of
their offices; and all that part of Baltimore county within said
limits, and not within the city, shall be called and considered the
Precincts of the City of Baltimore (a); that part of which situated
on the east of Jones's Falls and the north west branch of Patapsco,
to be the eastern precincts, and the remaining part thereof to
be the western precincts.
(a) By ch. 209, the whole of
the precincts is annexed to and made part of the city. |
Commissioners appointed
to lay off
part of Baltimore
county within certain
limits. |
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