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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said body corporate shall be construed as made
to it as an educational institution or corpora-
tion, unless otherwise expressed.

Effective.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from its date.

Approved March 31, 1888.

Chapter 209.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Lonacon-
ing, in Allegany county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the citizens of the town

Lonacouing
incorporated.

. of Lonaconing, in Allegany county, are a body
corporate, by the name of the mayor and coun-
cilmen of Lonaconing, and by that name to sue
and be sued, and have and use a common seal.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the limits of
said town be as follows : Beginning at a planted
stone, marked C. L. eighteen hundred and
eighty-eight, standing near a large lime tree

Limits of
town.

standing eastward of a large stone stable be-
longing to the American Coal Company, and
running thence south seven degrees and forty
minutes east, four hundred and ninety-six feet
to a point on the Georges Creek and Cumber-
land railroad track ; thence across the valley
north seventy-one degrees and forty-two min-
utes east, one thousand one hundred and ten
feet to a point on the aforesaid railroad track on
Bigbein hill ; thence along said railroad track
north eleven degrees and fifty minutes west,
nine hundred and fifteen feet ; then leaving said
railroad track north nine degrees and twenty-
seven minutes west, one thousand and sixty-two
feet to a stone marked C. L. four, planted on
top of a steep bank eastwardly from Bigbein
stable ; thence north twenty-three degrees east
one thousand six hundred and sixty-five feet to
a point south, seventy-one and one-fourth de-
grees east, twenty-five feet from an oak tree on
west side of Georges creek ; thence north sixty-