1332 ARTICLE 4.

division the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall forthwith appoint
five commissioners, two of whom at least shall be taken from the additions
to the said city made by this Act, and who shall forthwith proceed in such
manner, and under such regulations, as the said Mayor and City Council
shall prescribe, to lay off and establish the said eight election districts,
and to fix and establish the places of holding elections therein, respec-
tively; and all such elections shall be held at the said places in the manner,
and subject to the rules, regulations and provisions, heretofore made by
law concerning elections in the City of Baltimore, except so far as they
are hereby altered.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the said new wards to be laid off by
virtue of this Act, shall in all respects, and to all intents and purposes,
be subject to the powers, jurisdictions and authority, vested, or to be
vested, by law, in the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and in the
corporation of the said city, and shall be in all respects taken and con-
sidered as parts of the said city and corporation; provided, nevertheless,
that no part of the city tax of two dollars in the hundred pounds shall be
imposed on any real or personal property within any of the said wards,
until there shall be at least five dwelling houses on each acre of land; that
is to say, that each acre of such land, and the property thereon, shall be
wholly exempted from the said tax till there shall be erected on such acre
five dwelling houses, nor shall any tax for the making or repairing of the
public roads or bridges of the county, out of the limits aforesaid, be levied
upon the property within those limits,,

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That the five following persons, to wit:
John Beall Howard, Joseph Ford, Caleb Merryman, Labon Welsh and
Robert Lyon, shall be and are hereby appointed commissioners to ascer-
tain and fix new places for holding elections in the first and fourth elec-
tion districts of Baltimore County, respectively, instead of the places
heretofore fixed and established for that purpose in the said districts, and
shall proceed in the execution of their duty, in the same manner and
under the like penalties, as are prescribed in the Act, entitled "An Act
to regulate elections, for the Commissioners appointed by virtue thereof."

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That all acts, and parts of acts, inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act, shall be, and are hereby repealed.

Origin anil Boundaries.—Baltimore town, in Baltimore county, was laid out under
the provisions of the Act of Assembly of 1729, ch. 13. The town was extended under
the Acts of 1732. ch. 14; 1745, ch. 9; 1747. ch. 21, and 1773. ch. 4. Baltimore City
was incorporated by the Act of 1706. ch. 68. It was separated from Baltimore
county by the Constitution of 1851 and the Acts of 1852, chs. 17, 18, 86, 357; 1853,
ch. 253. and 1858. ch. 248.

The present city boundaries were established by virtue of the Act of 1816. ch. 200;
the Act of 1888. ch. 98. and Act of 1918. ch. 82.

As to the Act of 1816. ch. 209, and the boundaries of the counties, see Raab v.
The State, 7 Md. 494. Hammond's lessee v. Inloes, 4 Md. 144, and Public General
Laws, Art. 1, sec. 10.

Baltimore county had been formed by proclamation as early as 1650. This county
included at first all land lying to the north of Anne Arundel county on both sides