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WHEREAS, By Chapter 212 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of 1872, provision was made for the formation and establishment of
Garrett County by removing the entire Westernmost portion of the
then existing Allegany County and constituting this territory as
Garrett County; and

WHEREAS, The Act of 1872 by its terms defined the boundary line
to be effective between Garrett and Allegany Counties, which bound-
ary line was soon thereafter surveyed officially; and

WHEREAS, In the process of surveying the boundary line an error
of some 4,300 feet was made in the point at which the boundary line
touched the Potomac River MASON AND DIXON'S LINE; and

WHEREAS, Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly passed
in 1898, being Chapter 304, another and a correct survey of the
boundary line was made and monuments were erected accordingly;
and

WHEREAS, The survey of 1898 is now generally known as the Bauer
Report, it having been filed by Governor Lloyd Lowndes on November
9, 1898, and recorded in the land records of Garrett County in Liber
36, folio 167; and

WHEREAS, Despite the accuracy and correctness of the so-called
Bauer Report of 1898, the present line which is being observed as the
boundary line by the Garrett and Allegany Counties still is the line
from the old and incorrect survey made immediately following 1872;
and

WHEREAS, It is highly desirable for purposes of accuracy in taxa-
tion, representation and the affairs of these two counties that the
question of the boundary line be settled once and for all; now therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the boundary line between Garrett County and Allegany County
is declared to be the line as surveyed and described, together with
the monuments set up in accord therewith by the so-called Bauer
Report submitted to Governor Lloyd Lowndes on November 9, 1898,
and recorded in the land records of Garrett County in Liber 36, folio
167. All officials of the State of Maryland and of any political sub-
division thereof shall henceforth treat this boundary line as the
proper and correct boundary line between Garrett and Allegany
Counties.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1955.

Approved April 25, 1955.

CHAPTER 709
(House Bill 862)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 293 and
294 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Anne Arundel County

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.