| 1805.
CHAP. 97. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and for electors to choose a president and vice-president of the
United States, in which the city of Baltimore now is, or may hereafter
be made, by any law of this state, a part of a district, and also
for all future elections of delegates to the general assembly, and
electors of senate for the said city, and in all elections for sheriff
in the city of Baltimore as part of the county of Baltimore, the
said city is hereby divided into eight wards or districts (a) into
which it is now divided by the mayor and city council of Baltimore
for choosing of members of the first branch of the city council,
and the judges of the said elections for members of the first
branch of the city council of Baltimore aforesaid, now appointed,
or hereafter to be appointed from time to time under the corporation
of the said city, shall be the judges of the elections aforesaid,
and the said judges shall hold and conduct the said elections at the
several places prescribed by the ordinances of the said city for
holding the elections for members of the first branch of the city
council of said city, and shall, in all other respects as to time and
manner of holding said elections, and ascertaining and declaring
the persons elected, pursue and observe, under the penalties herein
before imposed on the other judges of elections, the several rules
and regulations by this act prescribed to the several judges of elections
in the county districts aforesaid, in relation to similar elections,
and conform themselves to the laws and constitution of this
state, in relation to such elections, and as to the persons whom
they shall permit to vote at the same.
(a) See
1817, ch. 51, if confirmed as a part of the constitution. |
Mayor to give notice
of elections,
&c. |
23. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the mayor of said
city for the
time being shall cause public notice to be given of the elections
aforesaid respectively, and in any election hereafter to be made in
the city of Baltimore to fill a vacancy, and wherein in it may be
necessary to issue a new warrant, such warrant shall go to the said
mayor, who shall appoint the day of holding the same, of which
ten days notice shall be given, exclusive of the day of notice and
the day of election; and the said mayor shall cause a copy of the
said warrant, together with notice of the day appointed for holding
such election, to be served on each of the judges in each ward,
at least three days before the day appointed for holding such election,
under the penalty of ten dollars for each and every neglect
and such election shall be holden within fifteen days after the said
warrant shall be received by the said mayor. |
Persons to vote in
the district they
reside in. |
24. AND BE IT ENACTED, That every person qualified
to vote,
shall vote in the election district in which he shall reside at the
time of the election, and at no other place. |
Penalty on offering
to vote a second
time, or in a
district in which
he does not reside,
&c. |
25. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any person
at any election,
having voted once, shall offer to vote again in the same district or
county, he shall subject to a penalty of ten dollars for such offence;
or if any person shall offer to vote in any name not his own,
or in the place of any other person of the same name, or residing
out of such district shall offer to vote therein, or residing out of
the county shall offer to vote at any such election, he shall forfeit
twenty dollars, and in either case the offender may be immediately
apprehended therefor by a warrant of a justice of the peace, or
judge of the election, issued in the name of the state, and shall be
tried by such justice or judge respectively. |
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