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	and who resides within the limits of the territory
	described by courses and distances in section one
	of this act, as contained on a list to be handed to
	them by the census takers as hereinafter provided,
	for or against the proposed transfer of territory;	Ballots — how
	all citizens so voting shall print or write on their	prepared.
	ballots the words: "For change of boundary line,"
	or "Against change of boundary line," and the
	said judges of election shall certify the result of
	such voting, in the manner now prescribed by
	law, to the Governor of Maryland and to the Clerk
	of the Circuit Court for Dorchester county, to be
	by the latter recorded among the Land Records
	of said county; and if the majority of the legal
	votes cast by the citizens before described shall be
	" For change of boundary line," then said herein-
	before described part of Dorchester county shall
	become and be a part of Caroline county and of
	the fifth election district thereof, and the Governor
	shall issue his proclamation to that effect, to be
	published in at least one newspaper published at Cambridge, in Dorchester county, and one at Den-
	ton, in Caroline county, and the inhabitants of the
	hereinbefore described territory shall thenceforth
	have and enjoy all the rights and privileges that
	are now held and enjoyed by other inhabitants of
	Caroline county, and be subject to the like burdens
	and responsibilities, and shall cease to have any
	claim to or interest in the county buildings and
	other public property, or public school property,
	of every description belonging to Dorchester
	county.
	SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the justices of the
	peace and constables residing and acting within
	the limits of that part of Dorchester county pro-
	posed to be transferred to Caroline county by	Not to inter-
	this act, who received or shall receive their ap-	fere with ap-
	pointments as such from Dorchester county, are	pointers
	hereby continued in office, and their official acts
	shall be as good and binding in law as if they had
	been duly appointed and qualified for Caroline
	county, until their successors are appointed and
	qualified, or until the expiration of the next ses-
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