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shall not affect the validity of the remaining parts of the Article or
of all other sections thereof. The General Assembly declares that
it would have passed the remaining parts of this Article or any sec-
tion thereof if it had known the word, phrase, clause, sentence, part
or parts, or sections would be declared unconstitutional.

Metropolitan District

21.    Metropolitan District Continued.

The area in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, Maryland,
within the boundaries specified herein below in this sub-title, is con-
tinued under a corporate agency for the purposes set forth in this sub-
title and elsewhere in this Article. It is the same corporate agency as
was created by Chapter 448 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of 1927 and continued by Chapter 1008 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of 1943. It shall be known as the
Maryland-Washington Metropolitan District and hereinafter in this
sub-title may be referred to as the "Metropolitan District" or as
"District".

22.    Boundaries of the Metropolitan District.

(a) 1943 Boundaries.—The boundaries of the Metropolitan Dis-
trict are as follows:

Beginning at a point where the Maryland District of Columbia
Boundary Line, in Montgomery County, intersects with the Mary-
land-Virginia Boundary Line on the southwest side of the Potomac
River and running thence in a northwesterly direction about 12.5
miles along the said Boundary Line to its intersection with a straight
line produced southwesterly from the intersection of the centers of
Falls Road and the road running westerly and northwesterly from
Scotland, at Wayside School, through Oak Spring Lock Triang-
ulation Station; thence northeasterly about 5.3 miles along the afore-
said straight line extended to its intersection with a line 300 feet
east of and parallel to the center of Seven Locks Road; thence
southerly about 0.1 mile along the aforesaid line to its intersection
with a line 300 feet north of and parallel to the center of the Mont-
rose Road, which road runs generally easterly from Seven Locks
Road to Randolph; thence easterly about 2.7 miles along the afore-
said line to its intersection with a line 300 feet southwest of and
parallel to the center of the Rockville-Washington Road; thence
northwesterly about 2.3 miles along the aforesaid line to its inter-
section with the southern boundary of the Town of Rockville, as de-
fined by Sections 902, 903, 904 and 905 of Article 16 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1939 Edition) and amended by
Chapters 203 and 204 of the Laws of Maryland of 1941; thence
easterly, southeasterly and northwesterly about 1.9 miles along the
aforesaid boundary to its intersection with a line 300 feet north of
and parallel to the center of the Rockville-Norbeck Road; thence
northeasterly about 4.2 miles along the aforesaid line to its inter-
section with a line 300 feet west of and parallel to the center of the
Norbeck-Olney Road; thence northerly about 0.1 mile along the
aforesaid line to its intersection with the prolongation of a line 300