J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                            319

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That 4 new sections be and they are hereby added to the Code of
Public Local Laws of Allegany County (1955 Edition), being Article
1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Allegany
County", sub-title "Fire Companies", said new sections to be known
as Sections 148A to 148D, inclusive, to follow immediately after
Section 148 of said Article, to be under the new sub-heading "LaVale
Fire Area", and to read as follows:

148A. For the purpose of providing funds with which to main-
tain and operate a fire department within certain parts of Allegany
County, there is hereby created a special fire area, to be known as
the LaVale Fire Area which shall comprise the following described
land in parts of Election Districts Nos. 29, 5 and 6 in said county,
particularly designated and described and lying and being in the
bounds, courses and distances as follows:

Beginning at the top of Will's Mountain 9/10ths of a mile North-
east of the two-mile post of the National Road, on the fourth line
of District No. 5, and at the end of the first line of District No. 20,
and running thence with the lines of District No. 20 Westerly one
mile crossing the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge (now
the Western Maryland Railroad) over Will's Creek above the paper
mill to the Western Maryland Railroad, then up the last named
Western Maryland Railroad about five miles to line of the crest of
Piney Mountain, due South of Barrellsville, it being the Easterly line
of Mt. Savage, District No. IS, then Southerly four miles following
the crest of the said mountain and with Districts 13 and 24 to the
National Road at the junction of the road leading to the tunnel in
the Eckhart Branch of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad
(now the Western Maryland Railroad) about ¾ of a mile West of
the six-mile post, thence with the said road Southwesterly about 1-1/3
miles to the top of Dan's Mountain and the Potomac Edison Company
Lake Lynn Electric Line, thence with the said electric power line
Easterly about 2-1/5 miles across District No. 29, the said power
line crosses the Winchester Road about 450 feet South of the Western
Maryland Railroad Bridge, thence with the East boundary of District
No. 29 and the top of Haystack Mountain to a point 1000 feet South
of the Braddock Road, thence parallel with and 1000 feet South of
the Braddock Road Easterly about 3/5 of a mile to the Southwest
city limits of Cumberland, thence with the city limits of Cumberland
in a Northwest direction about 2000 feet, then with the Northwest
limits of Cumberland about 1-6/10 miles to the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad at the base of the cliffs in the Narrows, thence with the
said Western Maryland Railroad about ½ mile Northwesterly to the
said East boundary of District No. 29, thence with the said East
boundary Northerly about 2000 feet to the beginning.

148B. (a). The County Commissioners of Allegany County are
hereby authorized, empowered and directed to levy annually against
all the assessable real property within the above described area, a
tax sufficient, but not to exceed ten cents on each $100.00 of assessable
real property, to pay the annual requirements of expenditures neces-
sary to maintain and operate the LaVale Volunteer Fire Department,
Incorporated, its successor or successors, including payment of en-
cumbrances on real estate or equipment owned by said LaVale Volun-