932 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Act entitled "An Act to repeal and re-enact with
amendments chapter 257 of the Acts of 1900, entitled 'An Act
to repeal and re-enact with amendments chapter 102 of the Acts
of 1904,' entitled 'An Act to re-incorporate the town of Hyatts-
ville, Prince George's county, Maryland, and to create therein
a governing body of the name and style of the Mayor and
Common Council,' " and also the Act entitled "An Act to re-
peal and re-enact with amendments sections 14 and 22 of chap-
ter 631 of the Acts of 1902, title being 'An Act to amend the
corporate charter of the town of Hyattsville,'" be and the
same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as
to read as follows:

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the citizens of the town of
Hyattsville, in Prince George's county, be and they are hereby
created a body corporate by the name of "The Mayor and
Common Council of Hyattsville," with all the power and privi-
leges of a body politic corporate, and by said corporate name
may have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, plead and be
impleaded, in any court of law or equity; may have and use a
common seal, may purchase and hold real, personal and mixed
property, and sell and dispose of the same for the benefit of the
town.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the limits of said town shall
be as follows: Commencing at the centre of the eastern branch
of the Potomac river, at its juncture with the northwest branch,
and running with the centre of said northwest branch westerly
to its intersection with the west line of R. P. Evans' addition
to Hyattsville extended, the same being 375 feet from Carlton's
dam, thence running northerly by said west line of said Evans'
addition north 22 degrees, 15 minutes east to a stone on the
south side of the public road leading to Washington, D. C, and
known as the Old Bladensburg road; thence northerly to the
western terminus of the north line of Avalon avenue, as the
same is laid down in the sub-division known as Ellaville; thence
easterly along said northern line of Avalon avenue, to the cen-
tre of the Washington and Baltimore Turnpike; thence with
centre line of said turnpike southerly, to its intersection with
the southern line of Riverdale extended; thence with said line
easterly to the Washington branch of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad; thence with the eastern boundary of said railroad
right-of-way southerly to the Alexandria junction of said rail-
road; thence with the eastern boundary of the right-of-way of
said Alexandria branch road, diverging eastward sufficiently to
include the property wherein the wells and pumping houses are
located, which belong to said town corporation, to the centre of