DORCHESTER COUNTY. 2267
same, or for any reasonable purpose for the good of the water service, to
enter any private property, at any reasonable time.*
ELECTION DISTRICTS.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 163. 1861, ch. 99. 1872, ch. 156. 1880, ch. 456. 1884, ch. 362.
252. Dorchester County is divided into fourteen election districts,
according to their present bounds and limits; the seventh or Cambridge
district is divided into two precincts, to be known as East Cambridge or
first precinct, and West Cambridge or second precinct, according to their
present bounds and limits as established by law, in each of which election
districts and precincts all elections for public officers shall be held at the
places now established by law.
1890, ch. 276.
253. A new precinct is hereby created in Cambridge, or Seventh Elec-
tion District of Dorchester County, to be known as the "Third, or Dails-
ville Precinct," and it shall consist of all that part of said Seventh Elec-
tion District lying west of a line commencing at the mouth of Jenkins'
Creek; thence running with the centre of said creek and the branch that
divides the Chamberlaine farm to the county road; thence in about a
southern direction to a point in the centre of the Bayly Road, opposite
the residence of Thos. Woolford, colored; thence with the Bayly Road
and Church Creek Road, to limit of Church Creek, or Number Nine
Election District of said county, the precinct hereby created being a part
of the present western precinct, and the voting place for said Third, or
Dailsville Precinct, shall be at Dailsville; the County Commissioners of
Dorchester County are hereby directed to make all necessary provisions
for voting in said precinct as they are now required by law for other
polling places in said county.
1898, ch. 517, sec. 1.
254. A new precinct is hereby created in Cambridge from the Seventh
Election District of Dorchester County, to be known as the Fourth Pre-
cinct, and it shall consist of all that part of said Seventh Election District
lying west of a line commencing at the foot of High Street in the town of
Cambridge, thence running south with the middle of High Street to
Puncheon Bridge or Washington Street, thence westerly with said Wash-
ington Street, to the divisional line of Dailsville Precinct, where it crosses
the county road in front of the Chamberlaine farm; the precinct hereby
created being a part of the present Second Precinct of said Seventh Elec-
tion District, and the Supervisors of Elections are hereby directed to make
all necessary provisions for voting in said precinct as they are now re-
quired by law for other polling places in said county.
*Sec. 162D, ch. 78, 1916, authorizes East New Market to issue $5.000 of bonds for
extending water works.
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