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with District of Columbia line to the Montgomery County
line to the place of beginning.

That the portion of the present Bladensburg District,
or Election District No. 2, situated and laying southeast
of the Washington branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, be and the same is hereby made a new district to be
known as and called Bladensburg Election District, or
Election District No. 2."

1902. Ch. 66. Line between the 13th and 7th election districts changed to
run as follows:

" Beginning at the point on the boundary of the four-
teenth election district of said county where it now be-
gins, and running from thence with the road leading to
Hairs Station on the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad
until it reaches the Northeast branch; thence with said
branch until it intersects the Western branch; and thence
with the Western branch to the northern boundary line
of the third election district."

1906 Ch. 345. Additional election district No. 17, erected from parts of the
16th and 2d election districts with the following bounds:

" Beginning at the points where the tracks of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad cross the " Northwest Branch"
and running thence with the meanders of said branch in
a westerly direction to the point where the said branch
leaves the corporate limits of Hyattsville; thence in a
northerly direction to the point where the " Ellersville
road" intersects the "New Cut road"; thence in a north-
easterly direction with said " New Cut road " to its inter-
section with the " Coalsville road"; thence in a northerly
direction with said last mentioned road to where it inter-
sects the public road leading to the Maryland Agricultural
College; thence in an easterly direction with the present
dividing line between Vansville and Hyattsville districts;
and according to the present location of said dividing line
to where the same intersects the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road; thence in a southerly direction with the line of said
railroad to a point directly opposite to the electric power
house at Riverdale, and from said Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, at said point, in a southeasterly direction to a
gate on the property of Charles A. Machems near the
gravel hill on the " Edmonston road"; thence southerly
with said " Edmonston road" to the northern corporate
limits of Bladensburg; thence westerly with said corporate
limits to a point where the " Eastern Branch " intersects
the " North West Branch " to a point where the tracks of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crosses said " North
West Branch," the place of beginning."