Garrett Park                                       2163

Section 54-2. Definitions.

The terms "town," "city," "municipality," or "municipal corpora-
tion" in this charter shall be construed as synonymous.

GENERAL CORPORATE POWERS

Section 54-3. General Powers.

The municipal corporation here continued, under its corporate name,
has all the privileges of a body corporate, by that name to sue and be
sued, to plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity, to have and
use a common seal and to have perpetual succession, unless the charter
and the corporate existence are legally abrogated.

CORPORATE LIMITS

Section 54-4. Corporate Limits.

A description of the corporate boundaries of the Town at all times
shall be on file with the town clerk or other comparable official and with
the clerk of the court of the county. The corporate boundaries are as
follows:

The several Garrett Park subdivisions of the lands of the Metropolitan
Investment and Building Company of Montgomery County, Maryland, in
said county, as the same are described, designated and laid out in the
three plats and certificates thereof, recorded in Liber J.A., No. 4, Folio
121; Liber J.A., No. 5, Folio 225, and Liber J.A., No. 11, Folio 167,
respectively, of the Land Record Books of Montgomery County, Mary-
land, except that the easterly boundary shall be as follows: Beginning
at a point in the southerly boundary of section 58 of said Town and dis-
tant 220 feet in an easterly direction from the easterly line of Keswick
Street extended; thence in a northerly direction parallel to said Keswick
Street to the northerly line of Strathmore Avenue; thence along the
northerly line of Strathmore Avenue, and in an easterly direction to its
intersection with Weymouth Street; thence along the westerly line of
the old county road in a northerly direction to the southerly line of the
right-of-way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, provided, that in that
portion of the town of Garrett Park as heretofore bounded, which is ex-
cluded from said municipality by the boundary hereby established, and
which lies between said boundary and Rock Creek, the streets or road-
ways heretofore laid out in said portion as shown on the plat filed in the
office of the clerk of the circuit court for Montgomery County in Liber
J.A., No. 5, Folio 225, and Liber J.A., No. 11, Folio 167, respectively, of
the Land Record Books of said county, shall revert to and be the prop-
erty of the owners of the land abutting thereon and closed as highways,
(1898, ch. 453, sec. 2. 1912, Ch. 790, sec. 245. 1916, ch. 700. P.L.L. (1930),
Art. 16, sec. 415. Mont. Co. Code (1939), sec. 455. Mont. Co. Code (1947),
sec. 517. Mont. Co. Code (1950), sec. 108-2. Mont. Code (1955), sec.
53-2. Mont. Co. Code (1965), sec. 54-2.)

The boundaries are further enlarged by annexation of certain con-
tiguous and adjacent lands described as follows:

(a) All those lands on the easterly boundaries of said Garrett Park
as described in said section comprising Lots 23 to 26, inclusive, in Block
No. 57, Lots 29 to 36, inclusive in Block No. 58, and Lots 11 to 18, in-
clusive, in Block No. 60, all as shown on a plat made by Ben Dyer, regis-