1590 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 706

CHAPTER 706

(House Bill 569)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
81 of Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Cecil County", sub-title
"Charlestown", validating and confirming the ownership
of certain land abutting on the lines of the revised streets
and blocks in the Town of Charlestown and relating
generally to property rights in the beds of the streets
and public ways and in the abutting property thereof,
AND PROVIDING FOR A REFERENDUM THERE-
ON.

WHEREAS, By Chapter XXIII of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1742 the Town of Charlestown,
in Cecil County, was made and created, and pursuant to the
provisions of said Act a survey was made by one John
Veazy, Deputy Surveyor, by which said Town of Charles-
town was laid out into "Two Hundred convenient Lots,
with proper Streets, Lanes and Alleys", and in further
compliance with the provisions of said Act one plat, duly
certified, was delivered to the Governor of the Province
and the other plat, duly certified was delivered to the Clerk
of the County to be enrolled among the County Records of
Cecil County; and

WHEREAS, Sometime ago the original plat of the survey
of the said John Veazy, which was filed in the County
Records of said Cecil County, became lost or destroyed and
there remains in said County Records only the original
certificate of the said John Veazy, Deputy Surveyor, and
the Commissioners, who were appointed by the aforesaid
Act of the General Assembly to have surveyed and laid out
the said Town; and

WHEREAS, Said certificate states that the 200 acres con-
stituting the Town proper had been divided into 200 con-
venient lots, all being rectangular in shape and 11½ by 9
perches, except certain lots along the river, and that the
Streets and Lanes are 12 in number, giving their names,
length and breadth as shown on the plat which was at-
tached thereto but which has since been lost; and

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