The inhabitants of the Town of Somerset, in Montgomery County,
within the corporate limits legally established from time to time,
are hereby constituted and continued a body corporate by the name
of "The Town of Somerset" with all the powers and privileges of a
body politic and 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, to hold real, personal, and mixed property when the best
interests of the town so demand, and to have perpetual succession,
unless the Charter and the corporate existence are legally abrogated.
(Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 59-1.)
A description of the corporate boundaries of the town at all
times shall be on file with the clerk-treasurer and with such other
officials and agencies as required by law. The corporate boundaries
are as follows:
Being a piece or parcel of land in the Bethesda (7th) District
of Montgomery County, Maryland; and being more particularly described
as follows:
Beginning for the same at a point at the end of the North 65°
17' 45" East 489.53 foot plat line of Lot 12 as shown on a plat of
subdivision entitled "Lot 12, Block B, Friendship Heights" and recorded
among the Land Records of Montgomery County, Maryland, in Plat Book
77 as Plat 7779, said point also being South 72° 09' 20" West
1415 feet, more or less, from a stone marked I.T.5F.V. found at the
end of the South 52° 45' 05" West 372.42 foot plat line as shown
on a plat of subdivision entitled "Parcel 'A', Block 9, Somerset Heights"
and recorded among the aforesaid Land Records in Plat Book 78 as Plat
7813; and running thence reversely with the aforesaid 489.53 foot
plat line in the meridian of the aforesaid plat recorded in Plat 7813.
1. South
60° 31' 05" West, 489.53 feet to a point; thence.
2. South
10° 30' 20" East, 98.50 feet to a point on the northerly right
of way line of Willard Avenue; thence running along said right of
way line.
3. South
79° 29' 40" West, 107.57 feet to a point on the first deed line
as described in a deed from Lester B. Cook, et ux, to the Town of
Somerset, Maryland, dated December 30, 1965, and recorded among the
aforesaid Land Records in Liber 3582 at Folio 429; thence with said
deed line.
4. North
71° 58' 00" West, 203.20 feet to a point on the easterly line
of extension of the South 71° 13' 55" West 361.31 foot plat line
as shown on a plat of subdivision entitled "Part of Block 'H', Somerset
Heights" and recorded among the aforesaid Land Records in Plat Book
76 as Plat 7548; thence running with part of said line of extension.
5. South
72° 09' 20" West, 273.93 feet to a point at the northerly most
corner of Lot 25, Block H, as shown on a plat of subdivision entitled
"Lots 25 and 26, Block 'H', Somerset Heights" and recorded among the
aforesaid Land Records in Plat Book 105 as Plat 12136; thence running
along the outlines of said Lot 25 and also along Lot 26, Block H,
as shown on said plat, six (6) following courses and distances.
6. South
17° 50' 41" East, 70.00 feet to a point; thence.
7. South
37° 06' 00" West, 155.11 feet to a point; thence.
8. North
56° 47' 12" West, 77.90 feet to a point; thence.
9. North
48° 12' 21" West, 18.02 feet to a point; thence.
10. South
55° 46' 33" West, 180.31 feet to a point; thence.
11. North
34° 13' 27" West, 139.46 feet to a point on the aforesaid 361.31
foot plat line; thence running with part of said plat line.
12. South
72° 09' 20" West, 232.17 feet, more or less, to a point on the
northeasterly edge of River Road; thence running along said edge.
13. North
50° 11' 40" West, 406 feet, more or less, to a point on the fourth
deed line as described in a deed from Thomas Hyde, Trustee, to John
E. Beall and Ralph Walsh, dated March 1, 1890, and recorded among
the aforesaid Land Records in Liber J.A. 17 at Folio 151; thence running
reversely with said deed line.
14. North
08° 52' 10" West, 2800 feet, more or less, to a stone at the foot
of a blazed cedar tree, said stone also being at the southwesterly
corner of the land now or formerly owned by General R.C. Drum; thence
running along a line dividing the said Drum land from that land as
described in the aforesaid deed recorded in Liber J.A. 17 at Folio
151.
15. South
82° 59' 40" East, 3650 feet, more or less, to a point on the westerly
right of way line of Wisconsin Avenue (U.S. Route 240); thence running
approximately along said right of way line.
16. South
11° 41' 35" East, 840 feet, more or less, to a point at the end
of the North 69° 50' 54" East 152.10 foot plat line as shown on
the aforesaid plat recorded in Plat Book 78 as Plat 7813; thence running
reversely with said plat line.
17. South
69° 50' 54" West, 152.10 feet to a point; thence continuing to
run along the outline of Parcel A as shown on the aforesaid plat recorded
in Plat Book 78 as Plat 7813, the seven (7) following courses and
distances.
18. South
79° 25' 45" West, 174.60 feet to a point; thence.
19. North
75° 31' 40" West, 95.50 feet to a point; thence.
20. North
81° 43' 42" West, 391.35 feet to a point; thence.
21. South
08° 38' 20" West, 200.00 feet to a point; thence.
22. South
09° 00' 40" East, 230.87 feet to a point; thence.
23. South
50° 40' 40" West, 248.94 feet to a point; thence.
24. South
08° 38' 20" West, 470.00 feet to a point on the South 72°
09' 20" West, 1865.89 foot plat line as shown on the aforesaid plat
recorded in Plat Book 78 as Plat 7813, 966.16 feet from the beginning
thereof; thence running with part of said plat line
25. South
72° 09' 20" West, 448.84 feet to the place of beginning; containing
approximately 172 acres of land.
(Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 59-2, Res. R-3-79, 4-19-1979;
Res. R-4-80, 6-24-1980; Res. R-9-87/Ch. Am. No. 1-88, 4-28-1988.)