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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

WHEREAS, at January session, in the year of our

Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two,

the General Assembly of Maryland parsed an act

which is chapter three hundred and forty-seven, of

the acts of that session, by which it provided that an

election should be held in the town of Port Deposit,

on the second Monday of May, in the year of our

Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two,

at which all persons having the qualifications neces-

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sary to vote for commissioners of said town, could

vote cither "for the new act of incorporation" or

" against the new act of incorporation;" and that if

the majority of ballots cast at that election should

have written or printed on them the words "for the

new act of incorporation," then said act should go

into full effect, on the first day of June, in the year

of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sev-

enty-two; but if a majority of said ballots should

have written or printed on them the words " against

the new act of incorporation," then said act shall be

utterly null and void ; and —

WHEREAS, after complying with all the provisions.

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and requirements of said acts, an election was held

on said second Monday of May, at which a large

majority' of the ballots cast had written or printed on

them the words " for the new act of incorporation ;

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WHEREAS, grave doubts have been suggested

whether or not the said act is of any legal validity,

because the question whether or not it should go

into hill effect, was by the terms of said act, made to

depend on the result of the election held as aforesaid,

on the said second Monday of May, which doubts it

is the object of this act to remove ; now, theretore —

SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the. General Assembly of

Repeated and

Maryland, That chapter three hundred and forty-

re-enacted

seven, of the acts passed at January session, in the

year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and

seventy-two, entitled an act to repeal sections one

hundred and forty-one, one hundred and forty-two,

one hundred and forty-three, one hundred and forty-

four, one hundred and forty-five, one hundred and

forty-six, one hundred and forty-seven, one hundred

and forty-eight, one hundred and forty-nine, and one