J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1969

CHAPTER 850
(House Bill 991)

AN ACT to add 4 new sections 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 and to be under the new sub-heading "LaVale Fire
Area," relating to the creation of the "LaVale Fire Area" and to
the levy of a special fire tax in parts of Election Districts Nos. 29,
5 and 6 in Allegany County, comprising said "LaVale Fire Area,"
and providing for a referendum thereon.

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 Laws of Allegany County (1955 Edition), being Article
1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Allegany
County," subtitle "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 maintain 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, par-
ticularly 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. 13, 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 Pennsyl-
vania Railroad (now the Western Maryland Railroad) about 3/4
of a mile West of the six-mile post, thence with the said road South-
westerly 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