568 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

improvements in said village, if twenty-five or more persons
residing in said village and owning taxable real or personal
property in said village shall petition therefor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of County Commissioners of Baltimore
County, at the time of the annual tax levy for this year and
each succeeding year, are hereby authorized, directed and
required to make a special annual levy of such amount as may
be mentioned in the petition hereinafter referred to, on each
one hundred dollars of the whole assessable property situated
in the Village of Relay, in Baltimore County, to be collected as
other county taxes in said county are collected, and said
special annual levy to be paid over by the said County Com-
missioners to the treasurer of the Relay Improvement Associa-
tion of Baltimore County, to be used by said association exclu-
sively for the betterment of the roads, sidewalks, sanitary
measures, drainage and other improvements in said Village of
Relay; provided, twenty-five or more persons residing in said
village and owning such taxable real or personal property in
said village shall, prior to each annual levy, petition the said
County Commissioners, thereby asking that such special levy
be made, and in said petition mentioning the amount desired
to be specially levied; provided the same shall not exceed the
sum of twenty dollars on each one hundred dollars of assessa-
ble property as aforesaid; provided, however, that all taxes
collected under the provisions of this Act and turned over to
the treasurer of the said Relay Improvement Association of
Baltimore County shall be used exclusively for the betterment
of the roads, sidewalks, drainage, sanitary measures and other
improvements within the area as provided for in Section Num-
ber two of this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purposes of
this Act the metes and bounds of the Village of Relay shall be
deemed and taken to be as follows: Beginning at a point on
the north limit line of the right of way of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company at the intersection of Viaduct avenue,
running thence in a general easterly direction to the westerly
boundary line of the Howard Ring property; thence along said
line in a general northerly direction to the westerly line of the
David Ring property; thence along said line to Francis
avenue, thence through the property belonging to the estate of
Isaac Francis by a straight line to a point formed by the
intersection of the easternmost and northernmost lines of the
R. E. Stapleton property, thence along the westernmost outline
of said Stapleton property to the Rolling road, thence southerly
along the Rolling road to the northwesternmost outline of the
property of the late William T. Randall, thence southwesterly