ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 465

from decisions on matters of law, made by the Courts of Baltimore city, in relation to the streets in said city, shall stand for hearing at the first term after the transmission of the record;provided, that from every final judgment or order granting or refusing a peremptory mandamus in any case hereafter brought, involving the title or right to a public office, either party shall have a right to ap- peal within twenty-days, and on such appeal the clerk of the Court shall forthwith transmit the original papers, including the judgment or order, to the Court of Appeals, and said Court shall im- mediately hear and determine the case.		Stand for hearing.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take [effect] from and after the date of its passage. Approved April 4, 1870.		In force.
CHAPTER 264.
AN ACT to amend the Act of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, Chapter one hundred and thirty- eight, relating to Election Districts in Charles County, by adding an additional section to said Act.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Section forty, Article nine, of Public Local Laws, title, Charles County, as amended by the Act of eighteen hundred and sixty- eight, Chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section, to he numbered as sub-sec- tion, viz:	Amended.
8. The County Commissioners of Charles County shall have power, upon petition of any voter or voters of said county interested in a change of the division lines between the several Election Dis- tricts of the county, as laid off under this Act, to correct and change said lines, when in their dis- cretion such correction and change will contribute to public convenience; provided, three weeks pre- vious notice of such petition shall have been given 30	Change Divi- sion lines on petition.