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1904 Ch. 260. Changes dividing line between 2d precinct of 4th election dis-
trict and the 7th election district to run as follows:

" Beginning at the intersection of the road leading from
Garrett Park with the turnpike leading from Rockville to
Bethesda; thence with a straight line to the intersection
of the Orendorf Mill road with the Old Georgetown road,
near Bean postoffice; thence with the Old Georgetown road
in the direction of Bethesda, to its intersection with the
road petitioned for by F. W. Bargerter and others, as per
plat recorded in Plat Book No. 1, Plat No. 51, of record in
the Clerk's office of the Circuit Court for Montgomery-
County; thence with said last mentioned road to its inter-
section with the turnpike in the direction of Rockville to
the place of beginning, and now embraced within the Sev-
enth Election District of Montgomery County, shall here-
after be a part and parcel of the second precinct of the
Fourth Election District of said county....."

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY.

The earliest settlements in Prince George's County were made upon
the Patuxent side of the county in the vicinity of Mataponi Creek, from
which point to Swansons Creek stretched a more or less scattered plan-
tation close to the river banks. The earliest records show that the
inhabitants along the river were regarded as living in St. Mary's County.
In 1650, when old Charles County was erected, the south shore of the
Patuxent was included in it and such settlements as were made within
the present limits of Prince George's County were under the immediate
control of Robert Brooke, Commander of old Charles County. In 1654
old Charles County was abolished and the territory on both sides of the
Patuxent was erected into. Calvert County. Somewhat later Calvert
County was limited to the territory on the eastern side of the Patuxent
and Prince George's County became part of the new Charles County
which was erected in 1658. This was the condition of affairs up to the
general act of 1695 when Prince George's County was erected. It was
then enacted

"that the Land from the upper side of Mattawoman and Swansons Creeks
& Branches Extending upward bounded by potomock on the West and Pa-
tuxent River on the East shall be and is hereby Constituted founded &
Incorporated into a County of this Province and shall be Denominated Called
and known by the name of Prince George's County and shall from and after