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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 143.

AN ACT to provide for taking the vote of the peo-
ple of Montgomery county for or against the re-
division of said county into twelve election districts
at the election to be held in the fall of eighteen
hundred and seventy-six.

Determine by
ballot.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the qualified and registered voters
of Montgomery county shall determine by ballot at
the election for electors of President and Vice Presi-
dent of the United States in the fall of eighteen
hundred and seventy-six, whether or not said county
shall be re-divided into twelve election districts.

Written or
printed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That at said election the
ballots to be cast shall have written or printed on
them in words, "For the re-division of the county
into twelve election districts, " or "Against the redi-
vision of the county into twelve election districts, "
and the said ballots so cast, immediately after said
election shall be carefully counted by the judges of
said election in each of the districts of said county,
and the presiding judges of said districts, or in case
of inability to attend, either of the other judges shall
at the time they cast up the vote for electors of Presi-
dent and Vice-President of the United States, also
cast up the vote cast for and against the re-division
of said county into twelve election districts, and cer-
tify the result of said voting to the Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for said county, who shall file the same in

Certify.

his office and certify the results of the same under
his hand and seal of his office to the county commis-
sioners of said county.

Shall appear.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if it shall appear
by the returns of the judges of said election that a
majority of the votes cast at said election has been
cast for the re-division of said county into twelve
election districts, then the county commissioners
shall before the first day of June in the year eighteen
hundred and seventy-seven lay out said county into