10                                Laws of Maryland                          [Ch. 5

vation of the public health and safety, and having been passed by a
yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two houses of the General Assembly, the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 23, 1971.

CHAPTER 5
(Senate Bill 261)

AN ACT to add new Sections 166A, 166B, 166C and 166D to the
Code of Public Local Laws of Allegany County (1963 Edition,
being Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland),
title "Allegany County," subtitle "Fire Companies," to follow
immediately after Section 166 thereof and to be under the new
subheading "Bedford Road Fire Area," relating to the creation
of the "Bedford Road Fire Area," and to the levy of a special fire
tax in said area, and providing for a referendum thereon.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Sections 166A, 166B, 166C and 166D be and they are
hereby added to the Code of Public Local Laws of Allegany County
(1963 Edition, being Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland), title "Allegany County," subtitle "Fire Companies," to
follow immediately after Section 166 thereof and to be under the
new subheading "Bedford Road Fire Area," and all to read as
follows:

Bedford Road Fire Area
166 A.

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 Bedford
Road Fire Area which shall comprise the land particularly desig-
nated and described and being in the bounds, courses and distances
as follows:

Beginning at a point on the crest of Evitts mountain at 2316
elevation, this point being the concrete monument number 162 on
the Mason-Dixon line which is the Maryland Pennsylvania boundary
line. From this point in a southerly direction to intersection of Rocky
Gap Road and Mason Road, then following the center line of the
Mason Road in a southerly direction to the intersection of Naves
Crossroad and Mason Road. Then following the center line of Naves
Crossroad in a westerly direction approximately 1500 feet from this
point in a southerly direction along the crest of the hill to the east
boundary of the city of Cumberland from the crest of said hill to
the intersection of the east and northern boundary of the city of
Cumberland 'marked with a concrete monument. From this monu-
ment in a westerly direction to the crest of Shriver Ridge along the
northern boundary of the city of Cumberland for a distance of 2,435
feet to a point on said line then leaving said north boundary line