| 1801.
CHAP. 59. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
extent, and the convenience of the voters, and also to make
choice of a place in each district at which the elections shall be held,
as nearly central as shall be practicable, having regard to the circumstances
aforesaid, and the accommodation of persons attendant
upon such elections; and the said commissioners shall, on or before
the fifteenth day of June next, deliver to the clerk of the county
court of their respective counties a description, in writing, under
their hands and seals, specifying plainly the boundaries and number
of each district which shall be altered and changed under this
act, and also the place in each district where the election for such
districts shall be hereafter held, and the said clerk shall record the
same in the records of the county. |
To meet at place
of holding county
court. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
appointed by
virtue of this act shall meet at the usual place of holding the county
court in their respective counties on the first Monday of April next,
for the purpose of performing the duties of this act, and the commissioners
or commissioner so meeting, may adjourn from time to
time, and place to place, until the whole be completed. |
Commissioners of
review appointed. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, that James Hopewell,
Richard Watts,
Harry Waughop, Walter Leigh and Benjamin Williams, of Saint-Mary's
county (a), Jacob Hollingsworth, Ellis Chandlee, Robert
Hart, Jeremiah Baker and James L. Porter, of Cecil county (b),
William Lyles, Alexander Covington, Humphrey Belt, senior,
Isaac Duckett and John Evans, of Prince-George's county, William
Heyser, Henry Ankony, Robert Smith, William Yates and Frisby
Tilghman, of Washington county (d), Daniel Lantz, David Hoffman,
George Robinet, Samuel Porter, William Shaw, Aquila A.
Brown and John Compton, junior, of Allegany county (e), be and
they are hereby appointed commissioners, to review, alter and designate,
the district in their respective counties, and to fix the place
where the election shall be held in each district thereof.
(a) See 1807, ch. 28. 1816,
ch. 5. (b) See November 1812, ch. 19. (c) See
1817, ch. 30. (d) See 1816, ch. 37. (e) See 1814,
ch. 34. 1817, ch. 15. |
How vacancies are
to be filled. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the commissioners
named in this act should refuse to accept his appointment before the
first day of April next, the governor and council are hereby authorised
and directed to fill the vacancy; and if the said commissioners,
or any of them, should not signify their refusal to the governor and
council before the said first day of April next, it shall be deemed and
taken as an acceptance of the appointment; and any commissioner not
signifying his refusal as aforesaid, and failing to perform the duties
imposed by this act, unless prevented by sickness, shall forfeit and pay
the sum of two hundred dollars; and that upon every appointment
under the authority of the governor and council, the person named
by them shall be deemed and considered a commissioner within this
act, unless he shall notify, in manner aforesaid, his non-acceptance
within thirty days after he shall receive his appointment; and if
any commissioner shall refuse to accept the appointment, the governor
and council shall appoint another, until some one shall be
found to accept; and every commissioner accepting under the appointment
of the governor and council, shall be subject to the same
penalty upon non-performance of duty as is imposed upon commissioners
originally named in this act, to be recovered in the manner
herein provided. |
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