566 LAW'S OF MARYLAND. [CH. 341
East 44 perches, thence South 63 degrees East to a point 420
feet west of Edmonston Road, thence in a northerly direction
along a line parallel with Edmonston Road (being the east-
erly boundary line of the Town of Edmonston, referred to in
the description of the second ward) maintaining at all points
a distance of 420 feet from said road to a line that is the
westerly prolongation of the boundary along Carter's Lane
(being also the northerly boundary line of Ward II, herein-
after described), thence in an easterly direction along said
prolongated line and the center line of Carter's Lane to the
westerly edge of Washington-Baltimore Parkway, thence in a
southerly direction along said Parkway to the northeasterly
right of way line of the Alexandria Branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, thence northwesterly along said right
of way line about 450 feet to the center line of River Road
(also known as Kenilworth Avenue), thence northerly about
650 feet along the center line of said road to its intersection
with the prolongation of the proposed relocated River Road
as shown on a right of way location plan prepared by the
County Engineer of Prince George's County, thence generally
northwesterly and northerly about 3200 feet along the afore-
said tentative relocated center line of River Road to a point
on the present southerly boundary line of the old Town of
Bladensburg (Quincy Street extended), said point being
approximately 075 feet east of the easterly right of way line
of the Alexandria branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad;
thence westerly along the southern boundary line of said old
Town of Bladensburg to the easterly bank of the Anacostia
River (saving and excepting from the aforesaid description
so much of the laud covered by the aforesaid description
as may now be within the corporate limits of the Town of
Cheverly and that portion of the land now owned by Prince
George's County), thence in a northerly direction along said
Anacostia River to a point on the eastern bank of said river
where it intersects the center line of the Washington-Balti-
more Turnpike (Washington-Baltimore Boulevard), thence in
a straight line to the point of beginning.
WARDS
36. The said Town of Bladensburg shall be divided for
election purposes into four wards, as follows:
(First Ward.) The First Ward shall embrace all of said
town in the original Town of Bladensburg bounded as fol-
lows: Beginning at a stake planted on the south side of the
County road leading to Washington, known as Bunker Hill
Road, by what was H. Carleton's Mill and 3 1/2 perches from
the junction of said road and the Baltimore and Washington
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