ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 817

CHAPTER 374.

AN ACT to create a special taxing district to be known under
this Act as the Edmonston District, and to provide for the
submission of this question to the qualified voters of said
proposed district for their adoption or rejection, and to
authorize, empower and direct the Board of County Com-
missioners of Prince George's County to make special levies
of fifteen cents on each one hundred dollars ($100.00) of
the assessable value of the real and personal property of the
said proposed Edmonston District and for such other addi-
tional special levies as in this bill provided, for the purpose
of opening, improving, widening, maintaining, repairing
and lighting the streets, roads, lanes, alleys, sidewalks, park-
ing, drainage, sewerage, sanitation and other village im-
provements, and for furnishing police and fire protection,
clerical and other public service, including the removal of
ashes, garbage and other refuse and the disposal thereof;
for the selection and succession of a committee to be named
and known as the Edmonston District Citizens Committee
who shall appoint a Treasurer to receive and disburse said
funds; also directing the said Board of County Commission-
ers to pay over to said Treasurer of said village for dis-
bursement for any of the aforesaid purposes the money col-
lected on account of the county road tax, in the same amount
and manner as is now required by law to be paid to incor-
porated towns in said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That for the purpose of this Act, the Edmonston District
shall constitute a special tax area or district, containing about
three hundred and fifteen acres, which shall be bounded as
follows: Beginning where the Shepard Branch of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad intersects the Eastern Branch of the
Potomac River, said point being in the corporation line of the
town of Hyattsville, then running with the Hyattsville corpo-
ration boundary line northerly to the Riverdale corporation
line, then with the Riverdale corporation line to a point north
seventy degrees (70^o) west from the intersection of the Edmon-
ston Road with Carter's Lane, running from thence to the in
tersection of the Edmonston Road and Carter's Lane, then with
Carter's Lane to a point two hundred and fifty feet east there-
on. to include the property of Mrs. E. T. Shields and John B.
Musquiller on Wells Avenue, thence parallel with the Edmon-
ston Road as it now runs maintaining at all points a distance