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CHARLES COUNTY. [ART. 9.

are hereby appointed a board of commissioners with
full authority to re-district said county into as many
election districts, not exceeding nine nor less than six,
as to them may seem most conducive to the convenience
and wishes of the people of said county.

Meetings of
commission-
ers.

Sub-Sec. 2. They shall be, and are hereby required
to meet in the town of Port Tobacco within the ten
days next ensuing after the first day of April next, for
the purpose of discharging the duties herein set forth ;

Vacancies.

and in case of vacancy or vacancies in said board of
commissioners by death, resignation or refusal to serve
or removal from the county, it shall be the duty of the
county commissioners of said county to appoint others
to fill such vacancy or vacancies.

Duties of com-
missioners.

Sub-Sec. 3. The said board of commissioners herein
appointed shall proceed as soon after their organization
as possible to determine and define the limits and
bounds of said election districts, and shall designate
the place for holding elections in each of said election

Proviso.

districts, provided, that the concurrence of five of said
commissioners shall be necessary to determine the num-
ber or bounds and limits of such districts, and the
place for holding elections in the same.

Lines of dis-
tricts

Sub-Sec. 4. Upon the adoption of any such division
of said county into election districts, if the lines divid-
ing the same be not public roads or streams of water,
the said commissioners shall cause such lines of division
to be run, marked and laid down upon plats thereof
under their direction or the direction of a majority of

Return and re-
cord

them, and they shall return to the county commis-
sioners of said county a full and accurate description,
in writing, of the boundaries of each of said election
districts, with any plat or plats of the dividing lines of
said districts, if any such are run, with the place for
holding elections in each of said districts designated,
and the said county commissioners shall cause the same
to be duly recorded among their proceedings, and shall

Notice

cause notice thereof to be given by publication in some
newspaper published in said county, and by advertise-