294 ELECTIONS. [ART. 3S

1896, ch. 202.

150. The sixth congressional district shall be composed of
Allegany county, Garrett county, Washington county, Frederick
county, and Montgomery county, and shall be entitled to choose
one representative in the House of Representatives.

Ibid.

151. The judges of the election districts of Baltimore county
forming part of the second congressional district, shall make a
return separate from that to be made by the judges of the
remaining districts of said county, and the judges of the election
precincts of Baltimore city, composing the third congressional
district, and the judges of the election precincts of Baltimore
city, composing the fourth congressional district, shall respectively
make separate returns, and separate returns shall in like manner
be made by the judges of the election precincts in said city con-
stituting a part of the second congressional district, and also by
the judges of the election precincts in said city constituting a
part of the fifth congressional district.

Ibid.

152. This article shall take effect from and after the date
of its passage, and all public general laws or public local laws
or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of
this article are hereby repealed; provided, that every offense
which has been or shall have been wholly or partly committed
against any of said public general or public local laws or parts
thereof before this article goes into operation, shall be dealt
with, inquired into, tried, determined and punished; and any
penalty in respect to any such offense shall be imposed or in-
flicted, and any fine shall be imposed, enforced or recovered in
the same manner as if the said laws or parts thereof had not been
repealed; and no case pending shall abate, by reason of such
repeal, and every act duly done and every warrant or other
instrument duly issued, made or granted before this article comes
into operation, shall continue and be of the same force and effect
as if the said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and
provided, also, that any right, liability, privileges and protection
in respect to any matter or thing committed or done before this
article comes into operation, shall continue and be of the same