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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 43.

AN ACT to lay out and establish a new election-

district in Somerset county, out of Lawson's

district number eight, and Smith's Island district

number seven, to be called Crisfield district,

or election district number seven.

New election

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

district

Maryland, That a new election district be laid out

and established out of Lawson's district number

eight, and Smith's Island district number seven .of

Somerset county, the said district to be known and

called by the name of Crisfield district, or election

district number seven.

Boundaries of.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the boundaries of

said new district shall be as follows all that district

in said county now known as Smith's Island or

election district number seven, and also all that part

of said Lawson's district south of the following line,

viz : Beginning at the mouth of Apes Hole Creek

on Pocomoke Sound ; thence by and with the

channel of said Creek to Apes Hole Bridge; thence

by and with the country road to Mariner's Church;

thence by a straight line to the mouth of a lane run-

ning between the lands of L. Dow Lawson and

William Davey near Jacksonville in said district;

thence by and with said lane to the little Annamessex

River ; thence by a straight iine to the mouth of Flat

Cap Creek.

Place of hold-
ing elections

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the place of holding

elections in said Crisfield district, or election district

number seven, shall be on the main land within the

corporate limits of the town of Crisfield; and the

place of holding election, in said Lawson's district, or

election district number eight, shall be at Hopewell

Station, on the Eastern Shore Railroad.

Appointments.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the Govenor shall

appoint two justices of the peace, and one registrar
of voters for said Lawson's district, and four justices

of the peace, and one registrar of voters for said

Crisfield district.