| 1791.
CHAP.
LXI. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
aforesaid shall adjourn to the fourth Tuesday in each year, to settle
with the said inspectors. |
Passed December
26. |
CHAP. I.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act directing the time,
places and manner, of holding elections for representatives
of
this state in the congress of the United States, and
for appointing
electors on the part of this state for choosing a president
and vice-president of the United States, and for the
regulation
of the said elections, and also to repeal the act of
assembly
therein mentioned. |
State divided
into districts
for nine
members; |
BE it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That provided this
state should be entitled to nine members in the next house of representatives
of United States, then and in that case it shall be and is hereby
divided into eight districts, in the following order, 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-town, and Baltimore
and Harford counties, the fifth; Cæcil, Kent, and Queen-Anne's
counties, the
sixth; Caroline, Talbot, and Dorchester counties, the seventh; and Somerset
and Worcester counties, the eighth, districts. |
And for eight
members. |
II. And be it
enacted, That provided this state should be entitled to no more
than eight members as aforesaid, then and in that case it shall be and
is hereby
divided into eight districts, to wit: The first four shall remain
as in the preceding
clause; Baltimore-town and Baltimore county shall be the fifth; Harford,
Cæcil, and Kent counties, the sixth; Queen-Anne's, Caroline, and
Talbot
counties, the seventh; and Dorchester, Somerset, and Worcester counties,
shall
be the eighth, districts. |
Two polls to
be kept in
Frederick. |
III. And be
it enacted, That the sheriff of Frederick county shall cause two
distinct polls to be kept, one for the voters of that part of the county
which lies
within the third district, and one for that part of the county which
lies within
the fourth district. |
Each district
to send one
member, &c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That each district shall be entitled to send one member,
except in the event of this state's being entitled to nine members,
and in
that case the fifth district shall be allowed (and each voter in said district
may
vote for) two members; the elections, in all other respects, shall be held
at the
time, in the manner, and according to the directions of the act to which
this is
a supplement. |
Persons to
vote for ten
electors, &c. |
V. And be it
enacted, That every person entitled and offering to vote for
electors of president and vice-president, agreeably to the directions of
the act to
which this is a supplement, shall, if this state should be entitled to
ten electors,
have a right to vote for ten persons, six of whom shall be residents
of the
western and four of the eastern shore; and if this state should be
entitled to
eleven electors, every person as aforesaid shall have a right to vote for
eleven
persons, seven of whom shall be residents of the western and four of the
eastern
shore; and the six or seven persons, as the case may be, residents of the
western,
and the four residents of the eastern, shore, having the greatest number
of votes
of all the candidates of their respective shores, shall be declared to
be duly
elected. |
Part of an act
repealed. |
VI. And be it
enacted, That so much of the act to which this is a supplement
which is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same
is
hereby repealed. |
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