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                    ALTERATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION.                    xxxv.

An Act (n) to alter the time of the meeting of the General Assembly of this State,
                        and for other purposes.  Lib. TH. No. 3, fol. 304.
                                                (n)  1811, ch. 211.

    1.  BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the time of
the meeting of the General Assembly shall be on the first Monday in December
in each year, instead of the first Monday in November, as is now prescribed by
the constitution and form of government.
    2.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That the governor of this state shall be chosen on
the second Monday of December in each and every year, in the same manner
as is now prescribed by the constitution and form of government; and the council
to the governor shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the second Monday
of December in each and every year, in the same manner as is now prescribed
by the constitution and form of government.
    3.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That all annual appointments of civil officers in this
state shall be made in the third week of December in every year, in the same
manner as the constitution and form of government now directs.
    4.  AND BE IT ENACTED, That all and every part of the constitution and
form of government that is repugnant to or inconsistent with the provisions of
this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed, abrogated and annulled, upon
the confirmation hereof.
    5.  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 alterations and amendments therein contained, shall be taken
and considered, and shall constitute and be valid as a part of the said constitution
and form of government to all intents and purposes, any thing in the said
constitution and form of government to the contrary notwithstanding.

An Act (o) to confirm an act passed at November session eighteen hundred and
    eleven, entitled, " An act to alter the time of the meeting of the General Assembly
    of this State, and for other purposes." 
Lib. TH. No. 3, fol 470.
                                            (o) November 1812, ch. 129.
    BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That an act, entitled,

 " An act to alter the time of the meeting of the General Assembly of this state
and for other purposes," be, and it is hereby confirmed and made valid to every
intent and purpose therein mentioned.

                                                    _____

An Act (p) to alter, change and repeal, all such parts of the Constitution and Form 
    of Government of this State, as relate to the division of Prince-George's County
    into Election Districts. 
Lib. TH. No. 5, fol. 166.
                                                (p) 1816, ch. 26.

    WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry
inhabitants of Prince-George's county, that they experience great inconvenience
for want of a sixth election district in said county, and praying an alteration
in the second, third, and fifth districts, so as to admit a sixth district
between; and the prayer of the petitioners appearing reasonable, Therefore,
    1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all that part
of the constitution and form of government, made such by the act of seventeen
hundred and ninety-eight, which directs that Prince-George's county shall be
divided and laid off into five separate districts, be and the same is hereby repealed.
 

 

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