§ 2. Boundaries.  


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  • The territory embraced within the corporate limits of said City of Chamblee shall be as fixed by the said act of 1908, 1908 Ga. Laws, page 542, and by the act of 1922, 1922 Ga. Laws, pages 631—638, inclusive, and with the additional territory embraced and included in this act. That is to say, by the said act of 1908, aforesaid, the center of the passenger depot of the Southern Railway Company, at Chamblee, Georgia, was declared to be the center of said incorporated municipality and the corporate limits to be located one-half (½) mile distant therefrom in each and every direction. By act of 1922, aforesaid, 1922 Ga. Laws, pages 631—638, inclusive, said limits as previously fixed were confirmed and in addition thereto the following territory was made a part of the incorporated area and territory of said municipality, to wit: Beginning at the line of corporate limits as fixed by act of 1908, aforesaid, near Prospect Church, and running in an easterly direction along the north side of Peachtree Road to Shallowford Road; and thence along the east side of Shallowford Road one (1) mile, more or less, to a point in line with the south side of Eighth Street; thence to and along the south side of Eighth Street to a point in line with westernmost part of the overhead bridge of the Southern Railway at point where Peachtree Road crosses said railway about one (1) mile, more or less, southwesterly from said railway station at Chamblee; thence running past said bridge to northern side of a public road parallel to said railway; and thence running along the northwestern side of said public road to the corporate limits of Chamblee as fixed by said act of 1908. Said annexation as made in 1922 was not clear and definite but was intended to embrace the territory as herein set forth. Said territory as fixed by said act of 1908 and as fixed by said act of 1922, as next above set out, is hereby declared to be the incorporated territory of said municipality, and in addition thereto, the following territory which is hereby made a part of said corporate territory of said municipality, to wit: Beginning at a point on the south side of Eighth Street, at the corporate line of said municipality as it existed prior to this act, said point being at or near the east line of land lot 271 of the 18th district of DeKalb County, and running thence westerly and northwesterly along the south side of Eighth Street or old Nancey's Creek Church Road to the south line of land lot 278; thence continuing west on the south line of land lot 278 to the west line of said land lot 278; thence north along the west line of land lot 278, 3,000 feet, more or less, to the northwest corner of said land lot 278; thence east along the north line of said land lot 278 to the corporate limits of said municipality as existing prior to this act.