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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

strued in any manner changing or altering the method of
making appointments to promotions in or removals from the
police force, as prescribed in Chapter sixteen of the Acts of
the General Assembly of nineteen hundred, but said police
force shall be regulated and managed in all respects in accord-
ance with said Chapter sixteen of said Act of Assembly of nine-
teen hundred; and provided further, that nothing herein con-
tained shall be construed to legislate out of office any police
officer, detective or officer of police now on the force, or any
employee of the Board of Police Commissioners.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 426.

AN ACT to create and establish a new Election District in
Wicomico County, to be known as the Twelfth or Nanticoke
Election District of Wicomico County.

Wicomico Co.
New election
districts.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That there shall be and there is hereby created a new
election district in Wicomico County to be known as the
Twelfth or Nanticoke Election District of Wicomico County,
and to be formed of the first precinct of No. 3 or Tyaskin
Election District, and No. 3 Tyaskin Election District shall
be so much of what heretofore has been Tyaskin or No. 3
Election District, as is included in what was heretofore pre-
cinct No. 1 of Tyaskin Election District.

Boundaries
of said
districts.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the boundaries of the
said No. 12 Nanticoke Election District shall be as follows:
Beginning at Shile's Creek at a stone boundary between the
lands of J. W. T. Robertson and Jeferson Hughs to Trinity
M. E. Church; thence with the centre of said road leading to
Tyaskin postoffice to a point where it intersects with a private
road leading from said road to the Nanticoke River, about
one hundred yards east of the colored school-house; thence
with said private road by the house of Henry Jones (colored)
and James P. Insleys and E. H. Williams to the Nanticoke
River; thence with said Nanticoke River to its confluence
with the Wicomico River; thence with the Wicomico River
to the first beginning at the boundaries mentioned herein
except the river shall be the new boundaries of the third
Tyaskin Election District.