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"Sec. 8, Be it enacted, That if a majority of the votes cast

shall be inffavor of the Ridgely District, then the lines and

boundaries of said district shall be and remain as hereinbefore
provided for in this Act, and Ridgely shall thereafter be the
polling place of said district.

"Sec. 9. Be it enacted, That if a majority of the votes so
cast shall be in favor of the Hillsborough District, then the
voting place shall be at Hillsborough, and the said election
district shall be known as the Sixth, or Hillsborough Dis-
trict, and shall be bounded as follows: Beginning at a point
on Choptank river, at the mouth of Tuckahoe creek, and run-
ning northerly with Choptank river to the Stock Landing
Mills, thence with the present dividing line between the Sec-
ond and Third Election Districts, to the head of Tuckahoe
creek, at Willson's, or Turner's mills, thence southerly, with
Tuckahae creek to the placa of beginning.

"Sec. 10. Se it enacted, That in the event of a majority
of the votes so cast shall be in favor of the Hillsborough Dis-
trict, that each and all of the several provisions of Sections
3, 4 and 5, of this Act, shall apply to the said election dis-
trict, known as the Hillsborough, or Sixth Election District
of Caroline County.

"Sec. 11. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date ol its passage."

Pending the consideration of said amendments,

Mr. Joyce moved that said bill, together with said amend-
ments, be referred to the Committee on Elections.

Which motion was adopted.

Senate bill entitled an Ac to repeal Sections 84 and 85,
and sub Section 1, of Section 87, of Article 11, of the Code
of Public Local Laws, entitled "Frederick County," sub-title
"Frederick," as enacted by Chapter 348, of the Acts of 1872,
relating to the corporate organization of Frederick City, and
to enast the following sections and sub-sections in lieu of the
same,

Was read the second time, and ordered to be engrossed fol
& third reading

House bill entitled an Act to repeal Section 5, of an Act
entitled an Act to exempt all that portion of the waters of
the Chesapeake Bay, therein described, from the effect and
operations of Sections 1 and 3, of Article 98, of the Code of
Public General Laws title "Wild Fowl," passed at January
Session, 1872, Chapter 54, and to re enact the same with
amendments ; and also to repeal Section 21, of the same Arti-
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