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                    ALTERATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION.                    xxvii.

shall be divided and laid off into four separate districts, Talbot county shall
be divided and laid off into four separate districts, Somerset county shall be divided
and laid off into three separate districts, Dorchester county shall be divided
and laid off into three (l) separate districts, Cecil county shall be divided
and laid off into four separate districts, Prince-George's county shall be divided
and laid off into five (m) separate districts, Queen-Anne's county shall be
divided and laid off into five separate districts, Frederick county shall be divided
and laid off into seven (n) separate districts, Harford county shall be divided
and laid off into five separate districts, Caroline county shall be divided and
laid off into three separate districts, Washington county shall be divided and
laid off into five separate districts, Montgomery county shall be divided and
laid off into five separate districts, Allegany county shall be divided and laid
off into six (o) separate districts.
    3.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That Anne-Arundel county, including the city of
Annapolis, shall be divided and laid off into five (p) separate districts.
    4.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That Baltimore county, out of the limits of the
city of Baltimore, shall be divided and laid off into seven districts, and that
the city of Baltimore shall be laid off into eight districts.
    5.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and every part of the constitution and
form of government relating to judges, time, place and manner, of holding
elections in the city of Baltimore, and all and every part of the second, third,
fifth, fourteenth and forty-second sections of the constitution and form of government
of this state, which relate to the judges, places, time and manner, of
holding the several elections for delegates, electors of the senate, and sheriffs
of the several counties, be and the same are hereby abrogated, repealed and
annulled, and the same shall hereafter be regulated by law.
    6.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That if this act shall be confirmed by the general
assembly, after the next election of delegates, in the first session after such
new election, as the constitution and form of government directs, that in such
case this act, and the alteration of the said constitution contained therein, shall
be considered as a part, and shall constitute and be valid as a part, of the said
constitution and form of government, to all intents and purposes, any thing
therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

An Act (q) to confirm and act, entitled, An act to alter, abolish and repeal, certain
    parts of the Constitution and Form of Government of this State as therein mentioned.
   
Lib. JG No. 3, fol. 285.
                                                            (q)  1799, ch. 48.

    BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That an act passed at
November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled, An act to alter,
abolish and repeal, certain parts of the constitution and form of government
of this state as are therein mentioned, shall be and the same is hereby 
confirmed.

                                                    _____

An Act (r) to alter such parts of the Constitution and Form of Government as relate
    to Voters, and qualifications of Voters. 
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 175.
                                                            (r)  1801, ch. 90.

    This act altered and supplied by November 1809, ch. 83, confirmed by 1810, ch. 33.


    (l) See 1816, ch. 35.  (m)  See 1816, ch. 26.  (n)  See 1802, ch. 82.  (o)  See 1816, ch. 32.
(p)  See 1816, ch. 252.


 

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