3356 ARTICLE 91

An. Code, 1924, sec. 23. 1912, sec. 23. 1904, sec. 23. 1896, ch. 51, sec. 5.

23. All material collected, after having served the purposes of the
survey shall be distributed by the commissioners to the educational insti-
tutions in such manner as to be of the greatest advantage to the educa-
tional interest of the State; or, if deemed advisable, the whole or a part of
such material shall be put on permanent exhibition.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 24. 1912, sec. 24. 1904, sec. 24. 1898, ch. 129, secs. 1, 2.

24. Said commission is authorized to make provision for the comple-
tion of the topographic survey of Maryland in such manner as in the
opinion of the commission will be of the greatest benefit to the agricultural,
industrial, geological and military requirements of the State of Maryland,
and to publish special reports dealing with the various mineral products
and with the natural resources of each county in the State of Maryland.

Maryland Coordinate System.

1939, ch. 628, sec. 25.

25. The system of plane rectangular coordinates which has been estab-
lished and adopted by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for
defining and stating the positions or locations of points on the surface of
the earth within the State of Maryland shall be hereafter known and
designated as the "Maryland Coordinate System," and it shall be so desig-
nated in any land description in which it may be used.

1939, ch. 628, sec. 26.

26. The plane rectangular coordinates of a point on the earth's sur-
face, to be used in expressing the position or location of such point on
the above system, shall consist of two distances, expressed in feet and
decimals thereof. One of these distances, to be known as the "x coordinate,"
shall give the position in an east-and-west direction; the other, to be known
as the "y coordinate," shall give the position in a north-and-south direc-
tion. These coordinates shall be made to depend upon and conform to
the plane rectangular coordinates of the triangulation and traverse sta-
tions of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey within the State
of Maryland, as those coordinates have been determined by the said Survey.

1939, ch. 628, sec. 27.

27. For purposes of more precisely defining the Maryland Coordinate
System, the following definition by the United States Coast and Geodetic
Survey is adopted:

The Maryland Coordinate System is a Lambert Conformal projection
of the Clarke spheroid of 1866, having standard parallels at north lati-
tudes 38° 18' and 39° 27', along which parallels the scale shall be exact.
The origin of coordinates is at the intersection of the meridian 77° 00'
west longitude and the parallel 37° 50' north latitude. This origin is
given the coordinates: x= 800,000 feet and y = 0 feet.

The position of the Maryland Coordinate System shall be as marked
on the ground by triangulation or traverse stations established in con-
formity with the standards adopted by the United States Coast and Geo-
detic Survey for first-order and second-order work, whose geodetic posi-
tions have been rigidly adjusted on the North American datum of 1927
and whose plane coordinates have been computed on the system herein
defined.