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distances of the same and a plat of the same, which report and plat shall
be made in triplicate, and one each of the same shall be filed by him
with the clerks of the Circuit Courts for Allegany and Garrett Counties
and one with the Commissioner of the Land Office, and be recorded by
said officers in the record books of their said offices, and a copy of said
report shall be also transmitted to the Governor, who, upon approval of
the same shall notify the County Commissioners of said counties, after
which they shall make full payment to said engineer as aforesaid; but
nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the County Commissioners
of either or both of said counties from advancing to said engineer any part
of his said compensation as they may see fit, prior to said final payments,
upon being satisfied from the progress of the survey that such engineer
is entitled to such advance payments, and upon the approval of the Gov-
ernor of the true made and established line by the surveyor, approved
under this Act, the said line shall be and is hereby made the legal and
established boundary line between Allegany and Garrett Counties, between
the terminal points, as established by Chapter 212, Acts of 1872.

1898, ch. 304, sec. 4.

45. Said boundary line shall be completed and permanently established
within one year from the date of the passage of this Act.

1906, ch. 730, sec. 1.

46. At the next Congressional election, after the passage of this Act
to be held in Garrett and Allegany counties, all the qualified voters of
the State of Maryland, residing westward of straight lines drawn across
the territory of the State of Maryland from the summit of the Big Back
Bone or Savage Mountain, where that mountain is crossed by Mason's
and Dixon's line, to the middle of Savage River where it empties into
the Potomac River, and thence by a straight line to the nearest point or
boundary of the State of West Virginia, shall be entitled to cast one
ballot for or against the embracing or including all of that territory of
the State of Maryland lying westward of the above described lines within
the territory known and designated as Garrett County, according to the
Act of the General Assembly of 1872, Chapter 212; which said boun-
daries will then be described fully, as all that part of the State of Mary-
land, (which was formerly embraced as a part of Allegany County), lying
south and west of lines beginning at the summit of Big Back Bone or
Savage Mountain, where that mountain is crossed by Mason's and Dixon's
line, and running thence by a straight line to the middle of Savage River,
where it empties into the Potomac River; thence by a straight line to the
nearest point or boundary of the State of West Virginia; and beginning
for the same at the summit of the Big Back Bone or Savage Mountain,
where that mountain is crossed by Mason and Dixon's line, and running
thence by a straight line to the middle of Savage River, where it empties
into the Potomac River; thence by a straight line to the nearest point or
boundary of the State of West Virginia, and then with the said boundary
along the southern or right bank of the north branch of the Potomac River