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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

laid out and divided as hereinbefore in this act

directed, and six election precincts of the seventh

ward, to be named in said ordinance, contiguous in

territory to the territory of some one or more of the

six first entire wards aforesaid, shall be declared by

said ordinance to constitute, and shall constitute the

First legisla-

first legislative district of Baltimore city, the re-

tive district.

maining three election precincts of the said seventh

ward to be named in said ordinance; and the eighth,

ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth wards,

as so laid out and divided by said Mayor and City

Council of Baltimore, and three election precincts

of the fourteenth ward, to be named in said ordi-

nance, contiguous in territory to the territory of

some one or more of the six entire wards last

named, shall be declared by ordinance to constitute

Second legis-

and shall constitute the second legislative district of

lative district.

Baltimore city, the remaining six election precincts

of the said fourteenth ward to be named in said

ordinance; and the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth,

eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth wards shall be

declared by said ordinance to constitute and shall

Third legisla-
tive district.

constitute the third legislative district of Baltimore

city.

SEC. 9. And Be it enacted, That when the ordi-

Providing for

nance dividing the city of Baltimore into twenty

change of dis-

wards, as directed by this act, and showing the

tricts.

division of each of said wards into nine election

precincts, as directed by this act, has been passed

and approved, the said city of Baltimore shall be

Legislative

deemed and taken to be divided into three legisla-

districts-when
divided.

tive districts, as defined by the said ordinance.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the said divi-

sions, so made as directed by this act of the said

city of Baltimore into election precincts, wards and

Remain un-

legislative districts, shall remain unchanged until

changed.

otherwise directed by the General Assembly; and

that all acts or parts of acts, whether the same be

public general acts or public local acts, which are

inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and

the same are hereby repealed to the extent of said

inconsistency.

Effective.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That this act shall

take effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved February 6, 1882.