ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1185

and with the line dividing the lands of John Hirst and Wil-
liam M. Fletcher, north 13 degrees 50 minutes east 156 perches
to Choptank River, and on in the same direction to the middle
of said river, then down the middle of said river to a point
where a line north 41 degrees 20 minutes east from the be-
ginning would intersect; thence with a straight line to the
beginning.

The said suburban territory shall be, and is all the balance
of the territory outside of the said lines of the said urban terri-
tory and within the territorial limits of the Town of Cambridge.
as fixed by this Act.

42, Sub-section 1. And be it further enacted, that all of the
said urban territory shall be, and is subject to all of the pro-
visions of the Charter of Cambridge, as heretofore, or that may
hereafter be enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland^
and all of the ordinances heretofore, or that may be hereafter
passed thereunder.

42, Sub-section 2. And be it further enacted, that the said
suburban territory shall become urban territory and be sub-
ject to all of the provisions of the Charter of Cambridge as
heretofore, or that may be hereafter enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, and to the ordinances of Cambridge
heretofore, or that may be hereafter passed thereunder, upon
the following conditions, to wit:

That at any time, after this Act shall become effective, when-
ever any of the said suburban territory reasonably sufficient
in extent, and contiguous to the said urban territory, shall
become occupied and used, or built up and developed, laid out
into building lots of a size, and a sufficient number of them
built upon as to make any such section of said suburban terri-
tory become urban territory, in the discretion of the govern-
ing body of the Town of Cambridge, then such governing body
shall, and it is hereby authorized and empowered to annex such
suburban territory to the urban territory in the following
manner, to wit: The said governing body shall survey and lay
down and plot the outlines of any such section, they shall
then give notice, by publishing a description of such section
as surveyed, at least once in each of three successive weeks
before a certain day named in said notice, to be published
in some newspaper or newspapers published in the Town of
Cambridge, to all people interested, that on said day, unless
cause to the contrary shall be then, or before then shown to
the governing body why said suburban section should not
be declared and made urban territory and annexed to the al-
ready existing urban territory, and if no cause, or insuffi-
cient cause be shown, then on said day, or as soon thereafter

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