1592 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 706

been approved by the Commissioners of said Town by their
resolution duly passed in meeting assembled on January 5,
1953; and

WHEREAS, It is the intent of this Act to adopt the new
plat of the Town of Charlestown, as prepared by Price
and Price, Civil Engineers, in December, 1952, as the true
plat of said Town, thereby establishing the property and
street lines shown thereon as true and correct, and at the
same time assure to the several property owners the title
to that part of their properties which they now occupy
and for which they have no legal title lying between that
part of their property to which they have a good title and
the street line as established by the new survey and plat
intended to be adopted; now therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 81 of Article 8 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Cecil County", sub-title "Charlestown", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

81. [The John Janney survey, plat or blueprint of the
same made in the year 1836 shall be recognized as a
correct survey of the town of Charlestown and received as
evidence in any court of law or equity in the State of
Maryland. The said survey, plat or blueprint shall be filed
and recorded with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cecil
County. ] The Plan of the Town of Charlestown, Cecil
County, Maryland, drawn in accordance with the original
charter thereof, dated April 13, 1742, and a street survey
completed in 1952 and approved by the Commissioners of
Charlestown on January 5, 1953, consisting of eighteen
sheets filed among the Land Records of Cecil County, in
Plat Records Liber R. R. C., folio 40 to 57, inclusive, is
hereby adopted and confirmed as the proper plan of the
Town of Charlestown. The lines shown thereon as being
the lines of the revised streets and blocks are hereby
adopted and confirmed as being the proper lines of the
streets and blocks of Charlestown. The Commissioners of
Charlestown are hereby declared and confirmed as the sole
owners of, in fee simple, and as holding all right, title
and interest to the lands comprising the beds of the streets
and public ways of Charlestown, as shown on said Plan.
The several abutting property owners are hereby declared
and confirmed, as against the Commissioners of Charles-
town, as being severally the sole owners in fee simple of