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CHAPTER 259.
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CHAP. 259,
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Passed Mar.29, 1836
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An act to repeal all such parts of the Constitution and
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Form of Government, as relates to the division of
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Cecil county, into four separate etcction districts.
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Division of district
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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repealed
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Maryland, That all such parts of the constitution and
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form of Government, whereby Cecil county has been
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divided and laid off into four separate election districts,
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be, and the same is hereby repealed.
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Commissioners
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That Joseph Pryan,
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who may lay off Use county
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Edward Wilson, William Mackey, Henry C. Cham-
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berlaine, Thomas S. Thomas, George Kidd and Pa-
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trick Ewings, be, and they are hereby commissioners,
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and they or a majority of them, or a majority of their
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survivors, are hereby authorised, if they shall deem it
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necessary for the convenience of the voters of. said
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county to lay off and divide anew, Cecil county into
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Descriptions &c.
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separate election districts, not exceeding in number, se-
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ven, carefully making the several districts as nearly
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equal as possible, having regard to population, extent
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of territory, and the convenience of the voters of each
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of the said election districts, and each election district
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shall be numbered by said commissioners, and known
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thereafter by such number, and also to make choice of
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a place in each district so laid off, at which the elec-
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tion shall he held as nearly central as possible, and the
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said commissioners shall on or before the fifteenth day of
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July, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, deliver
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to the clerk of Cecil county court, a description
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in writing, under their hands and seals, or the
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hands and seals, of a majority of them, specifying
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plainly the boundaries and number of each district, and
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also the place in each district where the election for
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Recorded
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such district is to be held, and the said clerk shall re-
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cord the same among the recordsof said county.
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Time of meeting
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
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appointed by virtue of this act, shall meet at the court
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house, of said county, on the first Monday of April,
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eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, for the purpose of
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performing the duties imposed by this act, and the com-
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