2078                                    MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

sub-heading "Annexation," to enlarge the corporate boundaries of the Town of Bel
Air, and to amend Everstine's Code of the Public Local Laws of Harford County,
1965 Edition, sub-title "Bel Air," by adding Section 104J, being a part of Article
13 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland as re-codified by said
Everstine's Code, a part of the Code of the Town of Bel Air, and a part of the
Charter of the Town of Bel Air, annexing to said corporate boundaries the
following area, contiguous to and adjoining the present northeasterly corporate
boundaries of the Town of Bel Air, being lands owned by Lewis M. Hess, Jr., and
The Irval Corporation, a Maryland corporation, which is particularly described as
follows:

BEGINNING for the same at a point in the center of Moores Mill Road at the
northerly end of the North 74 degrees 13 minutes 00 seconds East 86.00 foot line
of the area annexed to the Town of Bel Air by Resolution No. 30 dated August
31, 1970, and running thence binding on the present corporate limits and on the
area annexed by Resolution No. 30, North 18 degrees 07 minutes 08 seconds West
16.32 feet to a pipe on the northerly side of Moores Mill Road, thence still binding
on the present corporate limits and crossing Bynum Run, North 19 degrees 41
minutes 51 seconds West 678.03 feet to a pipe now set, thence leaving said
corporate limits and binding on the lands of Clarence Walker the following three
courses, viz: (I) North 63 degrees 18 minutes 07 seconds East 184.05 feet, (2)
South 29 degrees 23 minutes 43 seconds East 58.07 feet to a fence post heretofore
set, (3) South 09 degrees 18 minutes 34 seconds East 291.88 feet to a pipe, thence
leaving said Walker lands and binding on the westerly outline of the lands now or
formerly of P. Paul Lochary and Oneta C. Lochary the following two courses, viz:
(1) South 09 degrees 18 minutes 34 seconds East 381.05 feet to a pipe heretofore
set on the northerly side of Moores Mill Road, (2) South 09 degrees 18 minutes 34
seconds East 16.19 feet to the center of Moores Mill Road, thence binding on the
center of Moores Mill Road and on the present corporate limits South 85 degrees
12 minutes 00 seconds West 71.08 feet to the place of beginning, containing 2.213
acres, more or less.

WHEREAS on or about June 21, 1972, there was formally presented to the
Commissioners of Bel Air a written petition signed by the owners of 25% or more
of the assessed valuation of the real property located in the area described in the
title to this resolution, there being no persons who reside in the area and who are
registered as voters in Harford County elections in the precinct in which the
described area is located, requesting that the corporate boundaries of the Town of
Bel Air be enlarged by annexing thereto the area so described;

WHEREAS, the Chairman of the Commissioners of Bel Air has caused to be
made a verification of the signatures on said petition and has ascertained that there
are no persons who reside in the area requested to be annexed and who are
registered as voters in Harford County elections in the precinct in which the
territory so requested to be annexed is located, and that the assessment records of
Harford County show that the signers of the petition are the owners of at least
25% of the assessed valuation of the real property located in the area so requested
to be annexed, all of which appear by reference to the certificate of verification
dated September 18, 1972, being subscribed by the Chairman of the
Commissioners of Bel Air and Town Counsel.

SECTION 1. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the

Commissioners of Bel Air that the corporate boundaries of the Town of Bel Air be
and the same are hereby enlarged by adding or annexing thereto the area
contiguous to and adjoining the present northeasterly boundaries of the Town of
Bel Air, as particularly described in the aforesaid petition and also in the title to
this resolution;