1346 ARTICLE 4.

ANNEXATION ACT OF 1918.*

1918, ch. 82.

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

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
there is hereby added to the territory of Baltimore City all the territory
lying between the boundaries of Baltimore City as they existed prior to
the passage of this Act and the boundaries fixed by this Act as follows:
Beginning for the same at the point of intersection formed by
the centre line of Park Heights Avenue and the centre line of Slade
Avenue and running thence by a straight line due south to the centre
line of Frederick Road; thence southeasterly by a straight line to
the point of intersection formed by the centre line of the Annapolis
or Light Street road and the centre line of the direct road leading
from Brooklyn to Pumphrey, said intersection being about two-thirds
of a mile southwesterly from the Anne Arundel County end of the
Hanover Street bridge across the Patapsco River; thence still south-
easterly by a straight line to a point on the west bank of Curtis Creek,
about 118 feet southwesterly from the west end of the highway bridge
across Curtis Creek at Walnut Point; said point having a latitude
north 39 degrees 12 minutes 29.2 seconds and longitude west 76
degrees 35 minutes 02.2 seconds (based upon the United States stand-
ards of datum of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey);
thence still southeasterly by a straight line to a point of latitude
north 39 degrees 11 minutes 50 seconds and longitude west 76 de-
grees 33 minutes 00 seconds (based upon the same United States
standards or datum of the United States Coast and Geodetic Sur-
vey) ; thence northeasterly by a straight line to the centre of the front
range light of the Brewerton Channel, located near Hawkins Point,
and continuing in the same direction to a point distant 1,000 feet
northeasterly from said centre of said range light; thence by a
straight line due north to intersect a line drawn due east from the
place of beginning; thence reversing said line so drawn and binding
thereon due west by a straight line to the place of beginning.

The courses in the above description are all referred to the true

meridian of the City of Baltimore Topographical Survey Commission.

1918, ch. 82, sec. 2.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, except as hereinafter other-
wise provided, all the provisions of the Constitution of Maryland and
of the Baltimore City Charter, and other local laws applicable to Bal-
timore City, and all the existing ordinances of Baltimore City, shall
be and the same are hereby extended and made applicable to such por-
tions of Baltimore County and Anne Arundel County as shall, under

*This Act was held valid in McGraw v. Merryman, 133 Md. 247.