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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of the several counties, be and the same are hereby abrogated, repealed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.
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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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