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registered as voters in County elections in the precinct in which the
territory to be annexed is located, and

Whereas, upon presentation of the petitions to the Mayor and Com-
missioners of the Town of Elkton, the presiding officer thereof caused to
be made a verification of the signatures thereon and ascertained that the
persons signing the petitions owned at least 25% or more of the assessed
valuation of the real property located in the area to be annexed, and

Whereas, the Mayor and Commissioners of the Town of Elkton are
desirous of annexing the hereinafter described area into the corporate
boundaries and taxable limits of the Town of Elkton, this resolution is
adopted.

Section 1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Mayor and Commissioners of
the Town of Elkton, that a new section to be known as Section 179A of
the Code of the Public. Local Laws of Cecil County of 1961, and also known
as Section 3A of the new Charter of the Town of Elkton as adopted on
October 30, 1968, said Code being Article 8 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (said new section also to be and constitute a part of
the charter of the municipal corporation known as the Town of Elkton),
be and the same is hereby enacted to read as follows:

179A. The following described area is hereby annexed to and included
within the boundaries and taxable limits of the municipality known as
the Town of Elkton, viz.:

BEGINNING for the same at a concrete monument found at the
intersection of the Northerly side of U. S. Route 40 and the Westernmost
side of Normira Avenue, said monument also being a corner of the present
Town Boundary of the Town of Elkton and being at the end of the South
05 degrees 23 minutes 18 seconds West 389.13 foot boundary line of the
Town; thence leaving said concrete monument and crossing U. S. Route
40, South 21 degrees 50 minutes 30 seconds East 127.49 feet to a concrete
monument set in the Southernmost right of way line of U. S. Route 40;
thence leaving said concrete monument and binding on the Southerly side
of U. S. Route 4-0, with the arc of a curve to the right, the chord of which
is North 84 degrees 18 minutes 30 seconds West 2954.84 feet to a point of
tangency; thence leaving said point of tangency and still binding on the
Southerly side of U. S. Route 40, North 69 degrees 13 minutes 10 seconds
West 2620 feet, more or less, to the centerline of Big Elk Creek, said
centerline being the present Town Boundary Line of the Town of Elkton;
thence, leaving said point and binding on the Town Boundary and the
centerline of Big Elk Creek in a Northeasterly and Southeasterly direction
3960 feet, more or less, to a point; thence leaving said centerline of Big
Elk Creek, South 36 degrees .4-4 minutes 32 seconds West 60.00 feet to a
point in the centerline of the old abandoned Elkton-Middletown Railroad
bed; thence, with the centerline of said abandoned rialroad, South 53 de-
grees 15 minutes 28 seconds East 202.16 feet; South 57 degrees 44 minutes
22 seconds East 649.22 feet, South 56 degrees 56 minutes 05 seconds East
613.92 feet, and South 56 degrees 20 minutes 06 seconds East 1138.59 feet
to a point on the West side of Whitehall Road or Dickey Biddle Road;
thence leaving said point and binding on the West side of the aforesaid
road, South 33 degrees 25 minutes 33 seconds West 100.90 feet to a point;
thence leaving said point and the West side of said road, South 56 degrees
34 minutes 27 seconds East 20.00 feet to a point at the intersection of the
centerline of the aforesaid road and the Northerly side of U. S. Route 40,
thence leaving said point of intersection and binding on the Northerly