1330 ARTICLE 4.

APPENDIX.

AN ACT TO ENLARGE THE BOUNDS OF BALTIMORE CITY.
(See notes to sec. S of this Appendix.)

1816, ch. 209.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the precincts of Baltimore City, and all that part of Baltimore County
which is included in the following metes and bounds, shall be, and are
hereby annexed to, and made part of, the City of Baltimore; 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 a 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, by 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 Phila-
delphia Post Road, by a straight line, to the northeast corner of the Laza-
retto 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 Whetstone Point, on the main branch of the Patapsco River, and run-
ning with and bounding on the said main branch, excluding the land
ceded to the United States on Whetstone 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 west-
ern side of the middle branch aforesaid, and on the west by a line run-
ning from the termination of the last-mentioned line on the western shore
of the middle branch, and binding on the said shore to the north of
Gwynn's Falls, thence up and with the southwest side of Gwynn's Falls
to a point opposite to the mouth of Gwynn's Run, thence with a straight
course to the mouth of Gwynn's Run, and thence with a straight line to
the end of the aforementioned six hundred and forty perch line.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted. That all the provisions of the act, entitled
"An act to erect Baltimore-town, in Baltimore County, into a city, and
to incorporate the inhabitants thereof," and of all the acts supplementary
and in addition to the said act, shall be and hereby are extended and
applied to the present precincts of the City of Baltimore, and the part of
Baltimore County included within the bounds and limits described in the
preceding section, and to the inhabitants thereof; provided always, that
nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent any of the turnpike road
companies heretofore incorporated, from keeping up any gate or gates
now established, or from establishing others as authorized by law, before