| 1805.
CHAP. 97. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
vice-president, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows:
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof
may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of
senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in
congress; in order to carry the said provisions into effect, and to
reduce into one act the several existing laws on those subjects,
therefore, |
The state divided
into eight election
districts for choosing
representatives
to congress. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
for the purpose of electing nine representatives of this state in the
congress of the United States, this state shall be and the same is
hereby divided into eight districts, which shall be numbered from
one to eight, to wit; Saint-Mary's, Charles and Calvert counties,
shall be the first; Prince-George's and Anne-Arundel counties, including
the city of Annapolis, the second; Montgomery county,
and that part of Frederick county adjacent, as far as Monocacy,
from the mouth thereof to the Pennsylvania line, the third; the remainder
of Frederick county, Washington and Allegany counties,
the fourth; Baltimore city and Baltimore county, shall be the fifth;
Harford, Cecil and Kent counties, the sixth; Queen-Anne's, Caroline
and Talbot counties, the seventh; and Dorchester, Somerset
and Worcester counties, the eighth district; and that each of the
said districts shall be entitled to one representative to congress,
except the fifth district, which district shall be entitled to two representatives,
one of which shall be a resident of Baltimore county,
and the other a resident of Baltimore city. |
Also into nine
districts for choosing
electors of
president and vice
president. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That for the purpose
of choosing
eleven electors of the president and vice-president of the United
States, this state shall be and the same is hereby divided into nine
districts, which shall be numbered from one to nine, in manner
following, to wit: Saint Mary's county, Charles county, and the
fifth election district of Prince-George's county, shall compose the
first district; the residue of Prince-George's county, Calvert county,
and the third and fourth election districts in Montgomery county,
shall compose the second district; the remainder of Montgomery
county, Anne-Arundel county, and the city of Annapolis and
city of Baltimore, shall compose the third district; Frederick
county, Washington county and Allegany county, shall compose
the fourth district; Baltimore county shall compose the fifth district;
Harford county and Cecil county shall compose the sixth
district; Kent county and Queen-Anne's county shall compose the
seventh district; Talbot county, Caroline county, and the first election
district of Dorchester county, shall compose the eighth district;
and the remainder of Dorchester county, Somerset county
and Worcester county, shall compose the ninth district; and each
of the said districts shall elect one person, being a resident of the
said district, except the third and fourth districts, which shall each
be entitled to two electors, residents of the respective districts, as
an elector or electors, as the case may be, for choosing a president
and vice president of the United States. |
Sheriffs to give
three weeks notice
of elections. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the sheriffs of
the several counties
in this state respectively; under the penalty of fifty dollars, at
least three weeks previous to every election regulated by this act,
shall cause public notice to be given within their respective counties,
by advertisements set up at the most public places within each |
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