684 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CORPORATE NAME.

Sec. 214. The inhabitants of Westminster, in Carroll Coun-
ty, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name
of "The Mayor and Common Council of Westminster," and by
that name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and be
sued, have and use a common seal, which may be altered at
pleasure, and have and possess all powers incident to munici-
pal corporations, as well as those hereinafter particularly
enumerated.

BOUNDARIES.

Sec. 215. The limits of the city of-Westminster, as surveyed
in 1896, are as follows: Beginning on the southwest at a stone
marked "B. E. G.," planted on the bank of the Baltimore and
Reisterstown turnpike on the line formerly a boundary be-
tween Baltimore and Frederick counties, and running north-
easterly at a right angle with said turnpike four hundred yards
to a marble stone; thence running parallel with the course of
said turnpike four hundred yards therefrom north 8614 de-
grees, west 720 feet, north 34 3/4 degrees, west 370 feet; then
with a continuous straight line parallel with the said turnpike,
north 33 1/2 degrees, west until it reaches a point at the end of
400 yards, measured from the southwest edge of that point on
said turnpike road now known as the intersection of Pennsyl-
vania avenue with Main street, in the city of Westminster;
then with a continuous straight line running parallel with
that part of said turnpike known as Pennsylvania avenue,
north 3 degrees east until it intersects a line on which the late
Adam Gilbert's land bounded, said intersection being at a
point near to a tree and in the public road leading to Bish's
mill; then north 87 3/4 degrees west 400 yards to the southwest
side of said turnpike road; then north 87 3/4 degrees, west 6
4/10 perches to a stone, south 29 degrees west 40 perches to a
stone, south 7 1/2 degrees east 31 2/10 perches to a stone, north
57 degrees west 11 8/10 perches to a stone, south 47 degrees
west 108 1/2 perches to a point on the southwest edge of the
turnpike road leading from Westminster to Uniontown; thence
south 47 degrees west 400 yards; then running parallel with
the last mentioned turnpike road the three following courses,
to correspond with the curvature of the same; south 73 degrees
east 618 feet, south 63 degrees east 160 feet, south 52 degrees
east until it reaches a point at the end of 400 yards, measured
at right angles from' said last mentioned turnpike road (it
being the southwest edge of Main street); then with one con-
tinuous straight line, parallel with both the hereinbefore men-
tioned turnpike roads, souh 33 1/2 degrees east until it reaches