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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 500.

AN ACT to repeal an act of the general assembly of

Maryland, passed at its January session, eighteen

hundred and seventy-eight, chapter four hundred

and sixty-three, entitled "An act to incorporate the

Town of Taneytown, in Carroll county, State of

Maryland, and to re-enact the same with amend-

ments."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the act passed at its January ses-

sion, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, chapter four

Repealed and
enacted in lieu.

hundred and sixty-three, entitled "An act to incorpo-

rate the Town of Taneytown, in Carroll county, State

of Maryland," is hereby repealed, and the following

sections enacted in lieu thereof:

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the citizens of the

town of Taneytown, in Carroll county, Maryland, are

Taneytown a

hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of

body corporate.

the Burgess and Commissioners of Taneytown, and by

that name may have perpetual succession, sue and be

sued, and have and use a common seal.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the corporate limits

of said town shall begin at a limestone planted on the

east side of the road leading from said town to Union-

town, in said county, for a corner of John Beard's lot,

and running thence north sixty-two and three fourths

degrees, east eighteen and two-tenths perches, to a

limestone at a corner of said Beard's lot; thence north

ten and three-fourths degrees, east fifty-four perches,

to a stone planted on the east side of a mill road ;

thence north, thirty-one and three-fourth degrees, west

Corporate
limits.

fifty-eight and four-tenths perches, to the northeast

corner of Jacob Lambert's lot; thence north twenty-

nine and three-fourths degrees, west twenty and eight-

tenths perches, to a stone set up on the south side of

the Littlestown road; thence north twenty-four and

three-fourths degrees, west forty-nine and two-tenths

perches, to the northeast corner of the Lutheran bury-

ing ground; thence, including said burying ground,

north thirty-six and three-quarter degrees, west seven-

teen and eight-tenths perches, to a stone planted ;

thence south fifty-five and one-half degrees, west