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LAWS OF MARYLAND..

CHAPTER 208.

AN ACT to change the boundary line and trans-

fer certain territory and population from Dor-

chester to Caroline county.

WHEREAS the town of Federalsburg stands upon

the dividing line between Dorchester and Caroline

counties, and divers difficulties in connection with

the maintenance of the public schools, and the

proper administration of justice, are experienced

from said circumstance; and, whereas, for the

above and divers other reasons, what purports to

Preamble

be an immense majority, to wit : every voter of

the seventy voters residing within the limits of

the territory proposed to be transferred have pe-

titioned the General Assembly of Maryland to

change the boundary line between said counties,

and transfer that part of Dorchester county, here-

inafter particularly described, to Caroline county,

the same being the Dorchester side of the said

town of Federalsburg and the country immedi-

ately adjacent thereto; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That all that part of Dorchester

Courses and
distances.

county, to wit: beginning at a point on Main
street, in the town of Federalsburg, where Bridge

street terminates, and which is an intersection of

a boundary between Dorchester county and Caro-

line county (marked "A" on the plat prepared by

John B. Isler, a surveyor of Caroline county, dated

January twenty-second, A. D., eighteen hundred

and eighty), and thence running with said Main

street, which is the present division line of said

counties, the following courses, viz : north eight

degrees west, thirty-one perches ; north thirty de-

frees west, thirty-nine perches; north forty-six

egrees west, thirty-two perches ; thence, still with

the county road and present boundary line be-

tween the said counties, north sixty-one degrees

west, twelve perches; north eighty-two degrees

west, seventy-six perches and twelve links ; north

eighty-four and one half degrees west, nineteen