1242 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 498

CHAPTER 498.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Board of Public Works
of Maryland to sell or lease to The Claiborne-Annapolis Ferry
Company, a Maryland corporation, a certain tract or parcel
of land in Talbot County known as the Ferry Property at
Claiborne, Maryland; or to ratify any existing lease for said
property made by the State Roads Commission of Maryland;
and to authorize and empower the Board of Public Works
of Maryland to sell or lease to The Claiborne-Annapolis Ferry
Company, a Maryland corporation, a certain tract or parcel
of land adjacent to said Ferry Property at Claiborne, Mary-
land, which parcel was conveyed to the State of Maryland by
the Claiborne Wharf and Warehouse Company on July
23, 1919.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of Public Works of Maryland be and is
hereby authorized and empowered to sell or lease to the Clai-
borne-Annapolis Ferry Company, a Maryland corporation, a
certain tract or parcel of land known as the Ferry Property at
Claiborne, Maryland, which property is described as follows:

BEGINNING for the same at the railroad rail on the end, mark-
ing the end of the third line of the land described in a deed from
Theophilus Tunis to the Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad
Company, dated February 27th, 1891, and recorded among the
Land Records of Talbot County in Liber T. H. No. 114, folio
362, etc., said beginning being also at the end of the second line
of the land described in a deed from Elijah J. Jarmon etc., to
the Claiborne Wharf and Warehouse Company, dated Septem-
ber 12th, 1910 and recorded among the said land records in
Liber F. G. W. No. 157, folio 431, etc., and running thence bind-
ing on the fourth line of the land described in said deed from
Theophilus Tunis to the Baltimore and Eastern Shore Railroad
Company, being also the third line of the land described in said
deed from Elijah J. Harmon, etc., to the Claiborne Wharf and
Warehouse Company, South eighty-nine degrees fifty-seven
minutes West four hundred and thirty-five feet to the railroad
rail on end; thence still continuing the same direction South
eighty-nine degrees fifty-seven minutes West two hundred and
thirty-three feet to the low water line of Broad Cove on Eastern
Bay, thence parallel to the centre line of the tracks of the pier
of the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway, South six-
ty-eight degrees twenty-four minutes West one hundred and
seventeen feet, more or less, to the edge of the dredged channel;
thence South twenty-one degrees thirty-six minutes East one
hundred and eight feet, more or less; thence parallel to and