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of the Chesapeake Bay, thus comprising the larger portion, if not the whole, of the
present counties of Cecil and Kent. The County Court was held at Joppa, on the
Gunpowder River, from an early period till 1768, when, by Act of 1768, ch. 14, a
court house and prison in Baltimore town were erected (see Levy Court v. Gwynn,
4 H. & J. 227), "on the uppermost part of Calvert Street, next Jones' Falls," where
the Battle Monument now stands—and on their completion, the records were re-
moved from Joppa, which has now ceased to be. By the vote of the county, Novem-
ber, 1863, the county seat of Baltimore County was located at Towsontown, under
the Act of 1853, ch. 452.

ANNEXATION ACT.

1888, ch. 98.

AN ACT to extend the limits of Baltimore City by including therein
parts of Baltimore County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all that part of Baltimore County which is included within the following
metes and bounds, that is to say:

Beginning for the same at the intersection of the present northern
boundary line of the City of Baltimore with the present eastern
boundary line of said city, and running thence northerly on and
with the line of the said present eastern boundary line of said city
if said line were extended northerly to a point on a line drawn due
east and west two miles due north from the intersection of the west
side of Charles Street with the north side of North Avenue, and
thence running with and bounding on said line westerly until said
line intersects the northeast side of the Baltimore and Reisterstown
Turnpike Road, and thence running and binding on said side of
said road southeasterly to the point of its intersection with the north
line of North Avenue, and thence running easterly with the north
line of said avenue to the place of beginning, shall be annexed to and
become a part of the City of Baltimore, at the time and upon the
conditions hereinafter mentioned.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all that part of Baltimore
County which is included within the following metes and bounds, that
is to say:

Beginning for the same at the intersection of the northeast side
of the Baltimore and Reisterstown Road with the north line of North
Avenue, and running thence on the said northeast side of said road,
northwesterly, until said line intersects a line drawn due east and
west two miles clue north from the intersection of the west side of
Charles Street with the north side of North Avenue, and running
thence westerly on said line until it intersects a line drawn parallel
to and distant westerly two miles from the west of Payson Street,
as laid down on Poppleton's map of Baltimore City, measured at
right angles thereto, and thence southerly with said line, and binding
thereon, to a point where said line would be intersected by a line
running due west from the point on the present western boundary