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have full power and authority to extend the bounds and limits
thereof, not exceeding one mile in any one direction beyond
the limits herein named, whenever they shall deem expedient,
and shall, whenever they extend the same, record the survey

of every such extension as may be made, from time to time,
among their own proceedings and also among the land records
of said county.

8. The corporate limits of the City of Cumberland, Mary-
land, are hereby extended so as to include all the body of land
lying between the second and third lines of the Brace survey t,

and the limits of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Dough-
erty's Lane, now called South Street, and described as follows:
beginning at the intersection of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road with ''the wagon road leading from Cumberland down
to Wiley's ford'' (said wagon road is now known as Virginia
Avenue) and running thence with a part of the second line of
the present city boundary, north seventy-nine degrees, east
about fifty feet, to the present northern boundary of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company's property, thence with the
said northern boundary south thirty-six degrees and nine min-

utes, east about, two hundred and sixty feet, south fifty-five and
three-quarters degrees, east two hundred and sixty feet; south
sixty-three and three-quarters degrees, east seven hundred and
ninety-eight feet; south seventy-two and three-quarters de-
grees east five hundred and fifty-eight feet to the westerly side
of Dougherty's Lane or South Street, thence with the westerly
side of said lane or street north thirteen and one-half degrees,
east about two thousand and eight hundred and ten feet to
the third line of the present city boundary, as surveyed by the
said William Brace in 1868.

4. The city limits of Cumberland, Maryland, as now con-
stituted, be and the same are hereby extended so as to include
all that body of land lying westward of the fourteenth line of
the Brace survey and described generally as follows: Begin-

ning at a point on the fourteenth city line (as surveyed by
William Brace the 7th day of May, 1868, and recorded in
Liber No. 27, folio 222, one of the Land Records of Allegany
County) distant two hundred and. fifty feet, measured in a
northeasterly direction from the center of Fayette Street ex-
tended, otherwise known as Sulphur Springs Hollow Road, and
running thence in a westerly direction parallel and two hun-
dred and fifty feet from the center line of said street or road
to a point due west two hundred and fifty feet from the in-