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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 244.
AN ACT to provide for the Division of the Firs Election
Precinct of the Fourteenth Election District of Baltimore
County into two Election Precincts, to be known as Precinct
No. 1 and Precinct No. 3, respectively.

Balto. Co.
Supervisors of
Election.
Certain elec-
tion district
divided.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore
County be and they hereby are directed, immediately after
the passage of this Act and before the ist day of June, 1900,
to divide the first election precinct of the fourteenth election
district of said county into two precincts, in such manner as
in the judgment of the said Board of Supervisors of Elections
will be most convenient to the greatest number of voters in
the said precinct. They shall number one of the said
precincts "1" and the other of said precincts "3," and they
shall make known the boundaries of the said precincts by
advertisement inserted in one or more newspapers of said
county once a week for two successive weeks before the ist
day of July, 1900.

Registries
altered.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That immediately after the said
precincts 1 and 3 shall be laid off and established, as
directed in the first section of this Act, it shall be the duty of
the said Board of Supervisors of Elections to label one of the
original registries of the said original first "election
precinct, " original registry, first election precinct of the four-
teenth election district of Baltimore County, and to label the
other of said original registries "original registry" third elec-
tion precinct of the fourteenth election district of Balti-
more County, and then to strike from the original registry
so labeled as that of the first election precinct of the
fourteenth election district the names of all voters whose
residences, as recorded on said original registry, are

Names
stricken off,
etc.

within the bounds of the new third election precinct, and
to strike from the said original registry labeled that
of the third election precinct of the fourteenth election
district, the names of all voters whose residences as recorded
upon the said registry show them to be residents of the new
first election precinct. Those names shall be stricken off by
drawing red ink lines through each of said names, and
through all the entries relating to such names, but in such
manner that the said original entries shall remain easily
readable, and in the column headed "Remarks" the said
Board of Supervisors shall write or stamp opposite the name
of each voter so stricken off the words stricken off because