ALTERATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION.
xxxi.
An Act (y) to alter, change and repeal, such parts of the
Constitution and Form of
Government of this State as relate to the division
of Saint-Mary's county into
Electional Districts. Lib. TH. No.
1, fol. 223.
(y) 1806, ch. 29.
WHEREAS it is represented to
this general assembly, by the petition of sundry
inhabitants of Saint-Mary's county, that they experience great inconvenience
for the want of a fourth district in the said county, and praying an
alteration
in the first and third districts, so as to establish and admit of a
fourth between
them; and the prayer of the petitioners appearing reasonable.
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 Saint-Mary's county shall be divided and laid off into three separate
districts,
be and the same is hereby repealed.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Saint-Mary's county
shall be divided into four
separate districts, and that the additional district shall be laid
off adjoining and
between the first and third districts, as they are now numbered.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if this act shall
be confirmed by the general
assembly of Maryland, 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 herein contained, shall constitute
and be
considered 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 (z) to confirm an act, entitled, An act to alter, change
and repeal, such
parts of the Constitution and Form of Government of
this State as relate to the
division of Saint-Mary's County into Electional
Districts. Lib. TH. No. 1,
fol. 308.
(z) 1807, ch. 8.
BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That an act passed at
November session, eighteen hundred and six, entitled, An act to alter,
change
and repeal, such parts of the constitution and form of government of this
state
as relate to the division of Saint-Mary's county into electional districts,
shall
be and the same is hereby confirmed.
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An Act (a) to alter the thirty-second and thirty-seventh articles
of the Constitution
and Form of Government. Lib. TH. No. 2, fol. 142.
(a) June 1809, ch. 16.
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That hereafter, upon
the death, resignation, or removal out of this state, of the governor,
it shall
not be necessary to call a meeting of the legislature to fill the vacancy
occasioned
thereby, but the first named of the council for the time being, shall qualify
and act as governor until the next meeting of the general assembly, at
which meeting a governor shall be chosen in the manner heretofore appointed
and directed.
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That hereafter no governor
shall be capable of
holding any other office of profit during the time for which he shall be
elected.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the thirty-second
and thirty-seventh
articles of the constitution and form of government as is repugnant to,
or inconsistent with, the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby
abrogated
and abolished.
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
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