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SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and same
being passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, shall take effect upon the date of its passage.

Approved March 8, 1929.

CHAPTER 50.

AN ACT to define, survey and mark the boundary of Virginia
and Maryland along the Potomac River as laid down by the
Award of 1877, and to authorize the expenditure necessary
therefor, and such action as may be necessary to secure the
approval by the Congress of the United States of the line
so surveyed and marked.

WHEREAS, the boundary line described in the Award of the
Arbitrators authorized by the Acts of the General Assemblies
of Maryland and Virginia, which Award was accepted by
Maryland (Acts of Assembly of 1878, Chapter 247), and by
Virginia (Acts of Assembly, 1877-1878, Chapter 246), and
approved by Congress (March 3, 1879) has never been sur-
veyed and monumented along the Potomac River; and

WHEREAS, because of uncertainties as to the actual position
of such unmarked line, which was only partially represented
on the map accompanying and made part of the Award of
1877 above described, the Governors of Virginia and Mary-
land have caused the entire line along the Potomac River to
be drawn on maps by Edward B. Mathews, State Geologist of
the State of Maryland, and Wilbur A. Nelson, State Geologist
of the State of Virginia, in accordance with their best judg-
ment of the Award of 1877, now therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the line laid down by Edward B. Mathews
and Wilbur A. Nelson be approved as a just and fair expres-
sion of the Award of 1877, regarding the boundary line along
the Potomac River in so far as the same was not represented
on the map accompanying the Award of 1877, and that the
said line be and is hereby accepted and declared to be a true
representation of part of the boundary line between Virginia
and Maryland already accepted by both states.