HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1113

were employees of the House of Reformation prior to its ac-
quisition by the State in determining their benefits under any
retirement system to which said employees may be entitled
and shall be entitled to retirement on the same terms and con-
ditions as if all the time served had been in said institution
after its acquisition by the State.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1941.

Approved May 6, 1941.

CHAPTER 646.
(House Bill 369)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
829 of Article 11 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land (1930 Edition), title "Frederick County", sub-title
"Walkersville", extending the corporate limits of the town
of Walkersville.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 829 of Article 11 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Frederick
County", sub-title "Walkersville", be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

829. The corporate limits of the town of Walkersville, of
Frederick County, Maryland, shall include all land lying with-
in the following boundaries: Beginning at the bridge over the
Glade Branch on the road leading from Walkersville to Bigg's
Ford, on the Monocacy, and following said Glade Branch to a
point one hundred feet northeast of the grounds of the canning
factory now owned by Mrs. Charles W. Ross and trading as the
Monocacy Valley Canning Co.; thence with a line parallel
with the northeast line of the canning factory ground to the
Pennsylvania Railroad, following said railroad to the road
leading from Walkersville to the Glade Cemetery; thence with
said road to the land now owned by Mrs. Edward G. Valen-
tine; thence with the north side of said Valentine property
ninety feet to the northeast corner of said property; thence
with the east side of said Valentine property to the southeast
corner thereof at the center of an abandoned roadway near the
end of Liberty Street; thence with a line through the lands
of Mrs. Ada Cramer to the center of the gateway on said land
on the Woodsboro and Frederick State Road; thence with a