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ALLEGANY COUNTY.

AN ACT relating to Elections in Allegany County. — 1836, ch. 160.

District

SEO. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

No. 10.

That the additional district, when laid off as in said act pro-

vided, shall be known by number ten, and the said district

when laid off shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges as

is now secured to the other election districts in said county.

Place of

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners named

holding
elections in

in said act, or a majority of them, shall have, and are hereby

Nos. 1 and

vested with full power to fix the places of holding the polls of

10.

that portion of the district number one, so laid off, as well as

that portion remaining, and it shall be the duty of said commis-

sioners to make return to the clerk of Allegany county, of the

place so fixed upon by them, to be recorded in the records of

Return and

Allegany county, and the said clerk shall immediately cause

record.
Notice

notice to be given of the places of holding said elections, in the

thereof.

newspapers printed in Cumberland, Allegany county, not less

than ten days previous to holding the next elections in said

county.

Judges of

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in case the commissioners,

elections.

who are authorized to lay off said district, shall lay off the

same as is required by the act in the preamble recited, it shall

be the duty of the commissioners of Allegany county, to appoint

three suitable persons to act as judges of elections in the said

district, who shall have, hold and exercise the same powers as

other judges of the elections in Allegany county now exercise

and enjoy.

Elect coun-

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the citizens of each of said

ty commis-
sioner.

districts shall elect one person as a commissioner of Allegany

county, in the manner pointed out by the act of assembly,

passed in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, chapter

twenty-five, and shall be subject to all the powers and restric-

tions therein mentioned.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to provide for electing Com-

missioners for Allegany County, and prescribing their power and duties,

passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, chapter

twenty-eve.-- 1838, ch. 5.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, no provision is made in the law enacted on the

twenty-eighth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty,

giving to the people of Allegany county, the right to choose

their commissioners of tax by ballot, to determine in case of tie

between two or more of the candidates, for the said office of

county commissioners; And whereas, it appears from the returns

of the judges of election for Aliegany county, that at the last

October election, there was a tie vote between two of the candi-

dates running for said office of county commissioners, in the

Flintstone district, in said county; therefore,