958 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Cn. 426

more of the persons owning taxable real estate in said village
shall petition therefor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of County Commissioners for Baltimore
County, at the time of the annual tax levy for the year 1923,
and for each succeeding year thereafter until this Act is re-
pealed, 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 real estate in the village of Baltimore
Highlands, in Baltimore County, to be collected as other county
taxes in =aid county are collected, to be used by said County
Commissioners for the maintenance, upkeep and improvement
of the roads and paths of said village of Baltimore Highlands,
provided fifty per cent, or more of the persons owning taxable
real estate in said village shall, prior to each annual levy,
petition the County Commissioners asking that such 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 cents on each one hundred dollars of assessable prop-
erty as aforesaid.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the purposes of
this Act, the metes and bounds of the village of Baltimore
Highlands shall be deemed and taken to be as follows:

Beginning for the same at the northwest corner of Maple
Avenue and Annapolis Road, and running northwesterly along
the northeast side of Maple Avenue two hundred and forty
feet more or less to the west side of Oak Road; thence southerly
along the westerly side of said Oak Road sixteen hundred feet
more or less to Hickory Road; and thence southwesterly along

the northwest side of Hickory Road thirteen hundred and
ninety feet; thence southerly twenty hundred and eighty feet
to the Patapsco River; thence following the line of the Pa-
tapsco River to a point which would intersect a line drawn
easterly from the Annapolis Road parallel with Michigan Ave-
nue, and one hundred and fifty feet northerly thereof to the
Patapsco River; and thence reversing said line and binding
thereon westerly thirty-nine hundred and eighty feet more or
less to the west side of the Annapolis Road, and thence souther-
ly along the westerly side of said Annapolis Road to the place
of beginning.

Being all of the property known as "Baltimore Highlands"
and embraced in the four plats of said development, namely,