718                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 279

been 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, the same shall take effect from the date of
its passage.

Approved April 17, 1931.

CHAPTER 279.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 299 to 351, both inclusive, of Article
14 of the Annotated Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(Edition of 1930), title "Howard County, " sub-title "Sykes-
ville, " and to repeal and to re-enact with amendments Sec-
tion 353 of Article 7 of the Annotated Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (Edition of 1930), title "Carroll County, " sub-title " Sykesville, " relating to the corporate limits of the
town of Sykesville and to exclude all that part of said town
which lies in Howard County from its corporate limits.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 353 of Article 7 of the Annotated Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (Edition of 1930), title "Car-
roll County, '' sub-title '' Sykesville, '' be and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, said section to read
. as follows:

353. The limits of said town shall be as follows: South 38 de-
grees west 2 perches from Springfield Hospital stone gate
marked "Springfield, " to beginning of first line running north
41 degrees west 14 perches to line 2, north 44% degrees west
72 perches to the beginning of line 3, as laid out by Section 2
of Chapter 256 of the Act of 1904, thence north 86 degrees
"west 64 perches to a stone at the end of line 5 as laid down in
said Act of 1904; thence for line 6 of said Act as therein laid
down, to wit: south 22 degrees, west 195% perches; line 7, south
16 degrees west 25 perches, to a maple tree; line 8, south 10%
degrees east 1814/5 perches, to cedar tree; line 9, south 50
degrees east 182% perches to a chestnut tree; line 10, north
54% degrees east 85 perches to a black oak tree; line 11, north 70%
degrees east 12 perches; line 12, north 74 degrees east 31% perches
to a rock marked X; line 13, north 2 degrees east 318 perches;
line 14, north 73% degrees west 64% perches to a hickory tree;
line 15, north 69% degrees west 18%5 perches to the beginning
of the first line; it being the intent of this Act to eliminate
lines 3, 4 and 5 as laid down by said Chapter 256 of the Act of