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ALTERATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION.
An Act (s) to confirm an act, entitled, An act to alter such
parts of the Constitution
and Form of Government as relate to Voters, and qualifications
of Voters.
Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 224.
(s) 1802, ch. 20.
This act altered and supplied by November 1809, ch.
83, confirmed by 1810, ch. 83.
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An Act (t) to alter and repeal such parts of the Constitution
and Form of Government
of this State as relate to the division of Frederick
County into Election
Districts. Lib. JG. No. 4, fol. 291.
(t) 1802, ch. 82.
WHEREAS it has been represented to this general assembly,
that great inconvenience
has been experienced for the want of two additional districts in Frederick
county; for remedy whereof,
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all that part
of the constitution and form of government, made such by the acts of seventeen
hundred and ninety-eight and seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, which directs
that Frederick county shall be divided and laid off into seven separate
districts,
be and the same is hereby repealed.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Frederick county shall
be divided and laid off
into nine separate districts.
4. 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, in such case
this
act, and the alteration in 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 (v) to confirm an act, entitled, An act to alter and
repeal such parts of the
Constitution and Form of Government of this State as
relate to the division of
Frederick County into Election Districts. Lib. JG.
No. 4, fol. 372.
(v) 1803, ch. 19.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That an act passed
at November session, eighteen hundred and two, entitled, An act to alter
and
repeal such parts of the constitution and form of government of this state
as
relate to the division of Frederick county into election districts, shall
be and
the same is hereby confirmed.
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An Act (w) to provide for the Trial of Facts in the several
Counties of this State, and
to alter, change and abolish, all such parts of the
Constitution and Form of Government
as relate to the General Court and Court of Appeals.
Lib. JG. No.
4, fol. 609.
(w) 1804, ch. 55.
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That this state
shall be divided into six judicial districts, in manner and form following,
to wit:
Saint-Mary's, Charles and Prince George's counties, shall be the first
district;
Cecil, Kent, Queen-Anne's and Talbot counties, shall be the second district;
Calvert, Ann-Arundel and Montgomery counties, shall be the third district;
Caroline, Dorchester, Somerset and Worcester counties, shall be the fourth
district; Frederick, Washington and Allegany counties, shall be the fifth
district;
Baltimore and Harford counties, shall be the sixth district; and there
shall be appointed, for each of the said judicial districts, three persons
of integrity
and sound legal knowledge, residents of the state of Maryland, who shall,
previous to and during their acting as judges, reside in the district for
which they
shall respectively be appointed, one of whom shall be styled in the commission
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