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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 247.

AN ACT to repeal sections one hundred and nine-

ty-nine, two hundred, two hundred and two and two

hundred and three of article four of the Code of

Public Local Laws of the State of Maryland, re-

lating to the City of Baltimore, sub-title " Elec-

tions," and re-enact section one hundred and nine-

ty-nine with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the, General Assembly of

Maryland, That sections one hundred and ninety-

Repealed and

nine, two hundred, two hundred and two and two

re-enacted.

hundred and three, of article four of the Code of

Public Local Laws of the State of Maryland relating

to the City of Baltimore, sub-title " Elections," be

and the same are hereby repealed, and that section

one hundred and ninety-nine be, and the same is

hereby re-enacted with amendments to read as fol-

lows :

199. The Board of Police of the City of Baltimore

before July first, eighteen hundred and. seventy-six,

and before the holding of any election whatsoever in

Lay out and

the said city, shall lay out and divide each and every

divide wards

of the wards of said city into election precincts, each

of which shall contain as nearly as may be six hun-

dred voters, and shall from time to time as changes

of population or alteration of the metes and bounds

of the wards in said city may require, alter and cor-

rect the said precincts so that the voting population

in each of said precincts shall be maintained as nearly

as may be at six hundred voters, and shall give no-

tice by publication of such division and of all changes,

alterations and corrections thereof, and shall record

the outlines of said precincts in the mode provided

by section two hundred and one of said article four.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force.

effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1876.