LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAPTER 304.
AN ACT to provide for the definite establishment and loca-
tion of the boundary line between Allegany and Garrett
counties, in order to bring under the assessment law certain
untaxed lands in said counties.
WHEREAS, By chapter 212 of the Acts of Assembly of 1872,

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provision was made for the formation and establishment of
Garrett county out of the lands within the then corporate
limits of Allegany county ; and
WHEREAS, Provision was by said Act also made for a survey
of the boundary lines of said counties, as established by said

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Act between certain terminal points therein named, and that
return of said survey and the plats of said line should be
reported to and filed with the Governor, the County Commis-
sioners and the clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany county,
under certain provisions in said Act contained, which provis-
ions were complied with, but the said returns and plats have
not been returned in compliance with the requirements; and
WHEREAS, By reason of the said failure to make said return

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and file said plats, the boundary line between the said counties
is now an unsettled question, thus involving both questions of
jurisdiction of courts and the right of taxation ; and
WHEREAS, There are now large and valuable areas of land

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in both of said counties untaxed or unassessed, to the great loss
and injury of said counties, as well as the State of Maryland ;
and

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WHEREAS, It is to the interest of all the taxpayers of said
counties and the State of Maryland, that said boundary line
should be definitely located, and thus increase the taxable areas
of said counties; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That immediately after the passage of this Act the Gov-

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ernor shall appoint or procure the services of a competent and
skillful civil engineer or surveyor, who shall at once survey and
definitely locate on the ground the boundary line between Alle-
gany and Garrett counties, on the line between the terminal
points established by chapter 212 of the Acts of 1872, which
said civil engineer or surveyor shall employ at his own cost the
necessary chain men and ax men or other necessary assistance,
and procure the stones for marking the line as hereinafter pro-
vided and for all said services of said engineer and for his
expenses for chainmen, axmen and other assistance and for

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engineer or
surveyor
appointed.