1324 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 646

229B. The property, real and personal, located within the
new limits of said city and without the old lines thereof, shall
pay for Municipal purposes city taxes beginning with the levy
of 1940 as follows: on ten per cent of the assessed value thereof
for the year 1940, and on ten per cent additional for each and
every year thereafter until the full assessed value is reached
and thereafter on the full assessed value thereof.

230. The said City is divided into five wards, the boundaries
and limits of which are defined to be as follows:

For Ward Number One: Commencing in the center of the
Public Square and running with the middle of Washington
Street westwardly, two hundred and seventy-six feet, thence
southwardly, through the middle of an alley, two hundred and
seventy-six feet, thence westwardly, along the middle of an
alley to the middle of Prospect Street; thence southwardly
thirty-seven feet, thence westwardly through the middle of an
alley, to the middle of Walnut Street; thence along the middle
of Walnut Street, northeastwardly, to the middle of West
Washington Street; thence along the middle of West Washing-
ton Street and West Washington Street extended to the west-
ern boundary of the city, thence northwardly with the western
boundary of the city, to the middle of Franklin Street ex-
tended; thence eastwardly, with the middle of Franklin Street
to the middle of Winter Street, thence southwardly, along the
middle of Winter Street to the middle of an alley opposite the
Winter Street School House, and lying between Franklin and
Washington Streets; thence along the middle of said alley
north of Washington Street, eastwardly to the alley running;
from Washington Street to Franklin Street, along the east side
of the Baldwin House; thence northwardly, along the middle
of the last mentioned alley, to the middle of Franklin Street;
thence along the middle of Franklin Street to the middle of
North Potomac Street; thence along the middle of North Poto-
mac Street southwardly, to the place of beginning.

For Ward Number 2: Beginning in the center of the Public
Square and running thence westwardly with the southern lines
of Ward number one, to the western boundary of the city,
thence southwardly and eastwardly with the boundary lines;
of the city, to the middle of the turnpike road leading to
Sharpsburg; thence along the middle of said turnpike, and the
middle of South Potomac Street to the place of beginning.

For Ward Number Three: Beginning in the center of the
Public Square and running northwardly, through the middle
of South Potomac Street and through the middle of the Sharps-
burg Pike to the southern boundary of the city; thence with
the boundaries of the city, eastwardly and northwardly, to
intersect a straight line drawn along the middle of Valentine