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failure of the surveyor of Allegany county to make the survey
according to the terms and directions of the original Act of
1872; and
WHEREAS, It is to the interest of all the taxpayers of said
counties and the State of Maryland that further expense and
litigation should be avoided, and that said boundary line
should be definitely and finally settled, and thus increase the
taxable areas of said counties; therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That at the next Congressional election, after the pas-
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sage of this Act to be held in Garrett and Allegany counties,
all the qualified voters of the State of Maryland, residing
westward of straight lines drawn across the territory of the
State of Maryland from the summit of the Big Back Bone or
Savage, mountain, where that mountain is crossed by Mason's
and Dixon's line, to the middle of Savage river where it
empties into the Potomac river, and thence by a straight line
to the nearest point or boundary of the State of West
Virginia, shall.be entitled to cast one ballot for or against
the embracing or including all of that territory of the State
of Maryland lying westward of the above described lines
within the territory known and designated as Garrett county,
according to the Act of the General Assembly of 1872,
Chapter 212; which said boundaries will then be described
fully, as all that part of the State of Maryland, (which
was formerly embraced as a part of Allegany county), lying
south and west of lines beginning at the summit of Big
Back Bone or Savage mountain where that mountain is
crossed by Mason's and Dixon's line, and running thence by
a straight line to the middle of Savage river, where it empties
into the Potomac river; thence by a straight line to the
nearest point or boundary of the State of West Virginia ;
and beginning for the same at the summit of the Big Back
Bone or Savage mountain, where that mountain is crossed
by Mason and Dixon's line, and running thence by a straight
line to the middle of Savage river, where it empties into the
Potomac river; thence by a straight line to the nearest point
or boundary of the State of West Virginia, and then with the
said boundary along the southern or right bank of the north
branch of the Potomac river to its source; thence due north
to Mason's and Dixon's line, and then with it east to the
place of beginning on the summit of the Big Back Bone or
Savage mountain.
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Boundary
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established.
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