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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 224.

AN ACT to extend the limits of Baltimore city by

including and annexing a part or portion of Balti-

more county in and to the said city, and to pro-

vide for taking a vote of the people residing in

said part or portion to be so annexed, for or against

such annexation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Extend the

Maryland, That all that part or portion of Baltimore

city limits.

county which is included within the following metes

and bounds, that is to say : bounded on the east by

a line parallel to and distant easterly one mile from

the east side of East Avenue, as laid out on the

Canton Company's grounds, and extending and run-

ning from a point where it intersects the north or

secondly herein described hues, southerly to the

channel of the Patapsco River or the boundary be-

tween Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties ; and

bounded on the north by a line distant northerly two

miles from the north side of Boundary or North Ave-

Metes and

nue at North street, and to run parallel with and to

bounds.

Townsend street, as laid down on Poppleton's map

of Baltimore, to the eastward of Cathedral street,

said line extending from a point where it intersects

the line first herein described to a point where it

intersects a line thirdly herein described, and bounded

on the west by a line run parallel to and distant

westerly one mile from the west side of Payson street,

as laid down on Poppleton's map of Baltimore

city; and extending from the north or secondly

herein described line to a point where it intersects

the southern or fourthly herein described line at low

water mark on the south shore of the Patapsco, and

running thence for the southern boundary with the

south shore of the said river at low water mark to

the eastern boundary of the Marine Hospital prop-

erty, and thence by a straight line to the south

terminus of the first herein described line in

the channel of the Patapsco, from the eastern to the

western boundary lines as herein described, be and

Proviso

the same is hereby annexed, and made a part of the

City of Baltimore; provided the provisions of this

act, for taking the sense of the people by ballot, shall

be complied with.