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                    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be and the same is hereby repealed.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.

                                                    _____

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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