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erick Pike for about one hundred yards to the first county
road to the left; thence along said county road to its terminus
at the point where said road intersects the road connecting
the Darnestown Pike and the Frederick Pike, known as and
called the "Shady Grove Road"; thence in an easterly direction
along the former boundary between the Fourth and Ninth
Election Districts to the aforesaid bridge over Mill Branch,
the place of beginning.

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

Approved May 26, 1941.

CHAPTER 659.
(House Bill 695)

AN ACT to add seven new sections to Article 1 of the Public
Local Laws of Allegany County, title "Allegany County",
sub-title "Frostburg", sub-heading "Parks and Play-
grounds", said new sections to be known as Sections 251A
to 251G, both inclusive, and to follow immediately after
Section 251 of said Article, authorizing the Mayor and
Councilmen of Frostburg, through an unpaid commission to
be appointed by it, to own, operate and assume full power
and control of the Allegany Cemetery, and to pass all rules,
orders and regulations in reference to the same.

WHEREAS, Allegany Cemetery, at or near Frostburg, has
been a burial place for approximately twelve thousand persons
during the period of its existence, to wit, seventy-seven years;
and

WHEREAS, the same is now owned by The Allegany Cemetery
Company, a private corporation; and

WHEREAS, said cemetery for many years has been maintained
in an unsightly condition and many burial plots therein have
been permitted to be overgrown with weeds and brush and the
driveways likewise permitted to become rutted and in a de-
plorable condition; and

WHEREAS, burial grounds are of concern from the stand-
point of health; and, if such places are not properly main-
tained by private enterprise, it then becomes the duty of the
State to meet the necessity; now, therefore