542                              THE COUNTIES OF MARYLAND

is to say: Beginning at the crossing of St. Clement's bay-
run by the stage road, and running thence with said stage
road towards Chaptico, until it reaches the northeast end
or corner of " Neale's lot," on said stage road; thence by
a direct line to the headwaters of " Notley Hall creek";
thence by the waters of the Wicomico and Potomac rivers-
and St. Clement's bay to the beginning."

1884 Ch. 259. Additional election district, Island district number nine,
erected out of election district No. 2.
" That a new election district be formed out of St.
George's island, a part of the Factory district, or election
district number two, .... to be known as the Island dis-
trict, or election district number nine."

1888 Ch. 522. Changes boundary line between 5th and 6th election districts
as follows:

" Beginning at Turner's Store, situated on the three
notch road, and running with said road to the road leading
from said three notch road, and through the lands of G. W.
L. Buckler and W. C. Ruder to a place called and known
as " Horse Landing," on the Patuxent river."

1902 Ch. 65. Commissioners appointed to resurvey and mark the Charles
County line.

SOMERSET COUNTY.

Settlements were made in the territory now forming part of Somer-
set County in the early years (1661,) of the planting of Maryland.
Others were also made on the eastern shore of Virginia, but those
were sufficiently separated to leave little occasion for the controversies-
regarding boundaries which have marked the territory during the last
two centuries and a half. By 1663 the disputes were sufficiently fre-
quent to cause correspondence between Governor Calvert and the gov-
ernor of. Virginia, and in 1665 a commission was appointed by the two<
states for the running of a divisional line. On the 25th of June, 1868,.
an agreement was made between Philip Calvert and Edmund Scarbor-
ough regarding the line which had already been run. This line con-
stitutes the southern boundary of Somerset and Worcester counties. The
record of the creation of Somerset County in the form of a proclamation
from Cecilius, Lord Baltimore, to Stephen Horsey and others is pre-
served in the Proceedings of the Council, Liber HH, pp. 268-270.³³ That

³³ Md. Arch., 3: 553-555.