3868

MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

thereto and all other matters contained in said Petition
have been duly verified, such Petition being on file
among the records of said municipal corporation.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED: That 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 (1966 Replacement Volume), the
boundaries of the Burgess and Commissioners of
Middletown, a municipal corporation of the State of
Maryland, be and they are hereby enlarged by the
annexation of the following described area:

BEGINNING AT AN IRON PIN AT THE END OF THE SOUTH 89°
24' 58" EAST 2933.45 FEET LINE OF THE PRESENT CORPORATE
LIMITS OF THE BURGESS AND COMMISSIONERS OF MIDDLETOWN, AS
SHOWN ON ROTHENHOEFER ENGINEERS' PLAT OF MIDDLETOWN,
MARYLAND, 1967, AND RUNNING WITH SAID LINE REVERSED NORTH
89° 24' 58" WEST 1167.18 FEET TO AN IRON PIN; THENCE
SOUTH 57° 05' 58" EAST 760.00 FEET TO AN IRON PIN; THENCE
NORTH 52° 50' 37" EAST 663.76 FEET TO THE PLACE OF
BEGINNING, CONTAINING 5.44 ACRES.

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the persons
residing in said area and properties located therein are
included for all purposes and subject to the provisions
of the Charter and Ordinances of said municipal
corporation in said area as fully as if said area had
been originally or subsequently included within the
boundaries of said municipal corporation.

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that all persons and
properties, real or personal, within the area sought to
be annexed shall be subject to municipal assessment and
taxation for the 1973—1974 fiscal year and for each and
every year thereafter at the current rates of said
municipal corporation.

AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the corporate
boundaries of said municipal corporation after this
annexation shall be as follows:

Beginning for the same at an iron bolt fixed in the
middle of a stone culvert, it being the first culvert
west of Middletown, on the National Turnpike Road leading
from Baltimore to Hagerstown and the west, and running
thence from said iron bolt the following courses and
distances, to wit: South 50° 45' West 333.00 feet to a
stake on the L. F. Rudy land; thence South 30° 46' 30"
East 1683.65 feet to a monument on the east margin of the
Bidle Road on a line of the property of C. F. Main and
Sons; thence South 55° 43' 27" East 853.00 feet to a
monument at a corner between said C. F. Main and Sons and
the Ray Bowers Properties; thence South 26° 09' 16" East