HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1225

locations of points on the surface of the earth within the State
of Maryland shall be hereafter known and designated as the
"Maryland Coordinate System", and it shall be so designated
in any land description in which it may be used.

26. The plane rectangular coordinates of a point on the
earth's surface, to be used in expressing the position or loca-
tion of such point on the above system, shall consist of two
distances, expressed in feet and decimals thereof. One of these
distances, to be known as the "x coordinate", shall give the
position in an east-and-west direction; the other,, to be known
as the "y coordinate", shall give the position in a north-and-
jsouth direction. These coordinates shall be made to depend
upon and conform to the plane rectangular coordinates of the
triangulation and traverse stations of the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey within the State of Maryland, as those
coordinates have been determined by the said Survey.

27. For purposes of more precisely defining the Maryland
Coordinate System, the following definition by the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey is adopted:

The Maryland Coordinate System is a Lambert Conformal
projection of the Clarke spheroid of 1866, having standard
parallels at north latitudes 38° 18' and 39° 27', along which
parallels the scale shall be exact. The origin of coordinates is
at the intersection of the meridian 77° 00' west longitude and
the parallel 37° 50' north latitude. This origin is given the
coordinates: x = 800, 000 feet and y = 0 feet.

The position of the Maryland Coordinate System shall be as
marked on the ground by triangulation or traverse stations
established in conformity with the standards adopted by the
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for first-order and
second-order work, whose geodetic positions have been rigidly
adjusted on the North American datum of 1927 and whose
plane coordinates have been computed on the system herein
defined.

28. Any triangulation or traverse station established as
described in Section 27 of this Act, and any other triangula-
tion or traverse stations which have been definitely established
by or in accordance with the requirements of the State de-
partment authorized to administer this Act, may be used in
establishing a survey connection with the Maryland Coordi-
nate System provided that such connection shall be made in
accordance with the rules and regulations established by the
State department authorized to administer this Act.

29. No survey of lands hereafter made shall have endorsed
thereon any legend or other statement indicating that it is