DENTON                                                 2185

Emory Dobson,
Mayor

RESOLUTION No. 202

Resolution of the Commissioners of Denton, adopted pursuant to the authority
of Article 11E of the Constitution of Maryland and Section 19 of Article 23A of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), Title "Corporations-Municipal,"
to enlarge the corporate boundaries of Denton, Maryland.

SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED by the Commissioners of Denton, that the
corporate boundaries of the Town of Denton be enlarged by annexation into the
Town of Denton, the following tract of land and premises which are contiguous to
and adjoining to the existing corporate areas of said Town, and described as
hereinafter set forth; consent to the said resolution having been heretofore filed
with the Commissioners of Denton by more than twenty-five percentum (25%) of
the persons who reside in the area to be annexed, and who are registered as voters
in the County Elections, and from owners of not less than twenty-five percentum
of the assessed valuation of the real estate located in the area to be annexed; said
lands being particularly described as follows:

Beginning for the outbounds of the same at a point on the line between the
lands of W. Henry Brown and the lands of John J. Smith and wife, described in a
deed from William S. Orme, Widower, to John J. Smith and Esther R. Smith, his
wife, recorded in Liber M.C.B. No. 152 Folio 697, one of the Land Record
Books for Caroline County, at the southeast corner of the said Smith lot and
running thence north 80 degrees 30 minutes West 206 feet with the Smith line and
the boundary line of the Town of Denton to a concrete marker on the east side of
Suzanne Street (formerly called Pine Street); thence south with the east side of
Suzanne Street south 9 degrees 30 minutes west 250 feet to the northwest corner of
the Francis Holsinger property; thence with the said Holsinger line south 80
degrees 30 minutes east 203 feet to the lands of Helen M. Brown; thence with said
Brown lands north 9 degrees 30 minutes east 250 feet to the place of beginning,
containing about 50,750 square feet of land, more or less.

The conditions and circumstances applicable to said annexation proposal are as
follows: (1) That all persons residing in the area to be annexed and their property,
shall be added to the corporate boundaries, generally subject to the provisions of
the Charter of the Commissioners of Denton, a Municipal Corporation.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the date of the
introduction of this Resolution is October 4, 1971, and that a public notice of said
Resolution be published in the County Record, a newspaper of general circulation
in the Town of Denton and in the area to be annexed, once a week for four (4)
consecutive weeks, briefly and accurately describing the proposed change, and
conditions and circumstances thereto, and setting a public hearing on Monday,
November 29th, 1971, at 8:00 o'clock P.M., at the fire house, Denton, Maryland,
at which time the Legislative Body will conduct a public hearing on said
Resolution.

Introduced:
October 4, 1971

Walter B. Palmer, Jr., Mayor