ART. 11.] ELECTION DISTRICTS. 1119

ELECTION DISTRICTS.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 11, sec. 49 1862. ch. 149. 1872, ch. 179. 1878, ch. 179.
1878, ch. 250. 1884, ch. 149.

103. Frederick county is divided into twenty-one election dis-
tricts, according to their present bounds and limits, as established
by law.

1872, ch. 204.

104. Election district number two is divided into four pre-
cincts, with the metes and bounds established by the act of 1872,
chapter 204, and the county commissioners shall appoint three
judges of election for each of said precincts, who shall perform
the same duties, be subject to the same obligations, and receive
the same compensation as judges of election in election districts.

1888, ch. 217.

105. The county commissioners shall have power and author-
ity to create new election districts in said county, in addition to
those already established, whenever in their judgment the con-
venience of the voters of the county, or any part thereof, would
thereby be promoted; and shall also have power to abridge or
enlarge any district heretofore established or which may hereafter
be established, and shall have the further power to designate the
places of holding the election polls in all election districts; pro-
vided, however, that no new election district shall be created under
the provisions of this section unless on petition of at least one
hundred and fifty of the duly qualified and registered voters re-
siding within the proposed new election district, and by the same
publication over the names of at least ten of the said petitioners,
And the same procedure that is now required in the matter of
opening and closing public roads in Frederick county; and pro-
vided further, that no new election district shall be so created
from a part or parts of then existing district or districts when the
registered vote of said district or districts shall be less in number
than three hundred; and provided further, that no new election
district shall be created under the provisions of this section unless
the proposed new election district shall contain at least three hun-
dred duly qualified and registered voters.