The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1949-02-24
INCORPORATION AND
GENERAL GOVERNMENT

are created a corporation by the
name of ''The City of Hagerstown,"
and by that name shall have per-
petual succession; may sue and be
sued; may have and use a common
seal, and possess such other Incl
dents and powers as attached by
law to a municipal corporation, and
may acquire by purchase, gift, con-
domination, or in any other lawful
manner, real, personal and mixed
property, and also any rights or in
terest therein, which in the opinion
of the Council it may be advisable
to so acquire for municipal purposes,
provided, however, that the Mayor
and Council shall not expend for the
acquisition of property for any one
purpose an amount in excess of
S10O,O0000 without the approval of
the majority of voters of the City
of Hagerstown given upon referen-
dunn at a General or Special election
of the voters of the City of Hagers-
town, and, provided, that unless
otherwise stipulated, any condem-
nation proceedings shall be instltut-
ed under the general laws of the
State of Maryland, and may from
time to time dispose of any property,
real, personal or mixed, or any
rights or interest therein, no long
err needed for public purposes. The
repeating of the former Section 227
of Article % of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, and the
enactment Of this new section, shall
not be construed as terminating the
existence of the corporation known
as 1.-The Mayor and Council of Ha-
gerstown," and creating new corp
Grafton by the name of 'The City of
Hagerstown," but shall be construed
as continuing the existence of the
said corporation known as THE
Mayor and Council of Hagerstown,"
and changing its name to that OF
2. The taxable limits of the City
of HagerstoWn are declared to be as
follows: Beginning at stone in the
North marginal line of the County
Road leading from the Hagerstown-
Leitersburg Turnpike to Fiddlers-
burg, said stone being 1850 feet east
of the east marginal line of said
Turnpike and running thence in
northeasterly direction and at right
angles to said North marginal line of
said County Road North II degrees
0712 minutes east 400 feet, thence at
right angles in northWesterly direc-
ton North Y degrees 5212 minutes
West, with the same bearing as that of
the aforesaid North marginal line of
the said County Road, 191755 feet
to the center of the aforesaid Ha-
gerstown Leitersburg Turnpike,
thence along said Turnpike North 10
degrees Al minutes East 529.6 feet,
thence leaving said Turnpike and
running North So degrees % min
utes West 1871 feet, thence South
81 degrees Is minutes West 1878
feet, thence North 72 degrees 5212
minutes West 785183 feet, thence at
right angles to the above described
second line and running in a south
westerly direction South II degrees
O71z minutes West 16,400 feet,
thence at right angles and running
in a southeasterly direction South
z degrees 5212 minutes East II 1850
feet to the east marginal line of
the Frederick Road; thence with the
East marginal line of Frederick
Road South IS degrees 81 minutes
East 625 feet to an iron pin in the
East marginal line of said road and
on the South side of proposed al
ley; thence along the South mar
ginal line of said proposed alley
South 8412 degrees East 1856 feet to
an iron pin the end of the third line
of a deed from John w. Kennedy
and wife to Thomas B. Watts; thence
with the fourth and part of the fifth
lines of said deed South II degrees
East 1875 feet South Is degrees East
1892 feet; thence South 7412 de-
grees West 247.5 feet to the afore-
mentioned Frederick Road; thence
along said road South 20 degrees
East 1899 feet to the Antietam
Creek thence 80 feet, more or less
across said creek; thence up stream
along the East bank thereof, said
East bank being in part the North
ern boundary line of Funkstown,
and with the meanderings of the
said stream in Northerly direction