1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 385.

ernor shall be questioned or invalidated on account
of any informality or illegality in his said ap-
pointment, but that they shall have the same force
and effect as if he only had been elected justice of
the peace for district number fifteen, in Frederick
county, Maryland.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall go
into effect from its passage.

CHAPTER 385.

Passed March
5, 1860.

AN ACT for the establishment of the southeastern
and northwestern boundary lines between this
State, and the State of Virginia, and making
further appropriation to complete the survey
and marking of the same.

Boundary.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the line established by the
agreement of the commissioners authorised in the
year sixteen hundred and sixty-eight, to fix the
bounds of Virginia and Maryland, is hereby de-
clared to be the true line of boundary between the
two States on the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake
bay, and that the true divisional line across Chesa-
peake bay, is a straight line from Smith's point,
at the mouth of the Potomac, to the southern-
most angle of the body of land defined by the
aforesaid commissioner as Watkins' point.

Northwestern
line.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the north-
western line of this State, is a line commencing
at the Fairfax stone, at the head of the north
branch of the Potomac river, and running thence
due north to the southern line of the State of
Pennsylvania, as surveyed in the year, eighteen
hundred and fifty-nine, by the commissioners ap-
pointed by the State of Maryland and Virginia in
conformity with the laws passed by the said States
for that purpose.

Appropria-
tion.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sum
of ten thousand dollars or so much thereof as may
be necessary, be and the same is hereby appro-