1780 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 728

provide for a referendum in each of said districts on the
question of incorporation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the citizens residing within that certain area
as defined in Section 2 of this Act, in Chillum Election Dis-
trict of Prince George's County are hereby made a body
corporate, by the name and style of the "Town of Spring-
dale", and by that name shall have perpetual succession,
may sue and be sued, have and use a common seal, execute
contracts, purchase and hold real, personal and mixed prop-
erty for municipal purposes, sell and dispose of the same for
the benefit of said Town, and be vested with the power of
eminent domain to condemn and convert property to the
public use of the Town for the purposes of widening or con-
structing streets, widening or constructing sidewalks and for
drainage projects, in the manner and procedure as is, or
shall be, provided by the laws of this State for state and
county purposes.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the corporate
limits and boundaries of said Town shall be as follows:
Beginning for the same on the District of Columbia-Mary-
land boundary line at the northwestern corner of the boundary
of the Town of Mt. Rainier and running thence northwesterly
along sai'd District of Columbia boundary line to the southern
line of the property of La Salle College; thence easterly
along the southern line of La Salle College and the prolonga-
tion thereof to the eastern right-of-way line of La Salle Road;
thence northerly by and with said eastern right-of-way line
of La Salle Road to the southwestern right-of-way line of
Chillum Road, thence northwesterly along said right-of-way
line of Chillum Road to the prolongation of the northwest
line of the property of La Salle College, thence southwesterly
along said prolongation and line of La Salle College to the
District of Columbia boundary; thence by and with the Dis-
trict of Columbia boundary northwesterly to the center line
of New Hampshire Avenue; thence northeasterly along the
center line of New Hampshire Avenue to the prolongation
of the northeasterly line of the Charles L. Haight property;
thence southeasterly with said northeastern line of the
Haight property to the northwestern corner of the John
Prolich property; thence northeasterly with the north-
western line of said Frohlich property and with the north-
western line of the property formerly owned by the late J.
Enos Ray and the prolongation thereof to the northeastern
right-of-way line of Ray Road; thence northwesterly with
said right-of-way line to the northwestern corner of the