E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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CHAPTER 280.
AN ACT to divide the State into six Congressional
Districts.
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Passed May
26, 1853.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That for the choosing of the six representatives
in the Congress of the United States, this
State shall be and it is hereby divided into six districts,
which shall be numbered from one to six, that Worcester
county, Somerset county, Dorchester county,
Talbot county, Caroline county and Queen Anne's
county, shall compose the first congressional district,
and shall be entitled to choose one representative;
that Kent county, Cecil county, Harford county, the
first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh
districts of Baltimore county and Carroll county,
shall compose the second congressional district, and
shall be entitled to choose one representative; that the
first eight wards of Baltimore city, or all the wards on
the east side of Jones' Falls, with the eighth, ninth,
tenth, eleventh and twelfth districts of Baltimore county,
shall compose the third congressional district, and
shall be entitled to choose one representative; that the
wards of Baltimore city, from ninth to twentieth inclusive,
or all those wards on the west side of Jones' Falls,
shall compose the fourth congressional district, and shall
be entitled to choose one representative; that Frederick
county, Washington county and Allegany county,
shall compose the fifth congressional district, and shall
be entitled to choose one representative; that Howard
county, Montgomery county, Prince George's county,
Charles county, Saint Mary's county, Calvert county
and Anne Arundel county, with the city of Annapolis,
shall compose the sixth congressional district, and shall
be entitled to choose one representative.
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Division of
State.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted,
That the returning
judges of the elections for representatives to Congress
of the first seven districts of Baltimore county, shall
make a return separate from the return to be made by
the returning judges of the remaining five districts, and
the returning judges of the first eight wards of the city
of Baltimore shall make a return separate from the return
to be made by the judges of the remaining twelve
wards.
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Separate return.
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