1823
Proposed by Act of 1822, chapter 112.
Ratified 1823.
St. Mary's County shall be divided
into five separate election districts, and
the additional district shall be taken and
laid off from the fourth election district
as they are now numbered.
Proposed by Act of 1822, chapter 116.
Ratified 1823.
[The appointed commissioners are]
hereby authorized and appointed, or a
majority of them, commissioners to lay
off and divide anew the fourth and fifth
election districts, or the fifth district
only, whichever they deem will tend
most to the convenience of the voters in
said districts in Anne Arundel County,
into not exceeding three separate elec-
tion districts. . . .
Proposed by Act of 1822, chapter 204.
Ratified 1823.
Every member of the Senate and
House of Delegates before he shall act
as Such, shall take and subscribe, the
following oath or affirmation, to wit; I,
A. B., do Swear (or affirm as the case
may be) that I will be faithful and bear
true allegiance, to the State of Mary-
land, and that I will Support the Con-
stitution and laws thereof: That I will
not directly or indirectly receive the
profits, or any part of the profits of any
other office during the time of my acting
as Senator (or member of the House of
Delegates) and that I will faithfully dis-
charge my duty as Senator (or member
of the House of Delegates) without
prejudice or partiality to the best of my
skill and judgment and that Electors of
the Senate and all executive and Judi-
cial officers before they act as such and
all persons elected or appointed to any
office of profit or trust, civil or military,
before entering upon the duties thereof,
shall respectively take and subscribe the
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following oath or affirmation to wit: I,
A. B., do Swear, or affirm, as the case
may be, that I will be faithful and bear
true allegiance to the state of Maryland,
and that I will Support the Constitution
and laws thereof and that I will to the
best of my Skill and judgment, dili-
gently and faithfully, without partiality
or prejudice, execute the office of ............
according to the constitution and laws
of this State.
1824
Proposed by Act of 1823, chapter 111.
Ratified 1824.
Sec. 1. The time of the meeting of
the General Assembly of this State, shall
be on the last monday of december in
each year, instead of the first monday of
said month as is now prescribed by the
Constitution and form of government.
Sec. 2. The Governor of this State,
Shall be chosen on the first monday of
January in each and every year, in the
same manner as is now prescribed by
the Constitution and form of govern-
ment, and the Council to the Governor
shall be elected on the first Tuesday
after the first monday of January in
each and every year, in the same manner
as is now prescribed by the Constitution
and form of government.
Sec. 3. All annual appointments of
civil officers in this State, shall be made
in the third week of January in every
year in the same manner as the Consti-
tution and form of government now
directs.
1825
Proposed by Act of 1824, chapter 67.
Ratified 1825.
All such parts of the Constitution and
form of Government, made such by the
acts of Eighteen hundred and sixteen
and eighteen hundred and seventeen,
which directs that Allegany County shall
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