ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 186.

AN ACT to amend and change the boundary lines of the ninth,

eleventh, twelfth and twentieth wards of the city of Baltimore

as now denned by an ordinance of the mayor and city council

of Baltimore, number thirty-six, approved April sixth, eighteen

hundred and eighty-two, and passed in conformity with the re-

quirements of an act of the General Assembly of Maryland,

chapter two, approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and

eighty-two, entitled an act to provide for the re-division of the

city of Baltimore into election precincts, wards and legislative

districts, and also to provide for the sub-division of said ninth,

eleventh, twelfth and twentieth wards into election precincts.

WHEREAS, in consequence of the large and unequal increase in

population in various voting precincts in the northwestern section

of the city of Baltimore, and in order to extend greater convenience

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to the qualified voteres therein and to equalize the election pre-

cincts thereof as nearly as may be, it is deemed desirable to change

certain parts of ward lines and precincts as hereinafter mentioned;

therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That the boundary lines of the ninth, eleventh, twelfth and

twentieth wards of the city of Baltimore as now described and

defined in an ordinance of the mayor and city council of Balti-

more, number thirty-six, approved April sixth, eighteen hundred

and eighty-two, and passed in conformity with the requirements

and terms of an act of the General Assembly of Maryland, en-

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titled an act to provide for the re-division of the city of Balti-

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more into election precincts, wards and legislative districts,

chapter two, approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and

eighty-two, be and the said boundary lines of the said ninth,

eleventh, twelfth and twentieth wards of the city of Baltimore

are hereby amended and changed so as to read respectively as

follows:

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the boundary lines of

the ninth ward in said city of Baltimore be and the same are

hereby changed so as to read as follows : ninth ward — beginning

for the same at the city dock and running thence northerly along

the west side of Jones' Falls to Eager street; thence westerly

along Eager street to Cathedral street; thence southerly along

Cathedral street to Richmond street; thence northwesterly along

9th ward.

Richmond street to Park street; thence southerly along Park

street to Fayette street; thence west on Fayette street to Eutaw

street; thence south on Eutaw street to Pratt street; thence

easterly on Pratt street to Howard street; thence southerly on