WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 2.

AN ACT to provide for the redivision of the City

of Baltimore into Election Precincts, Wards and

Legislative Districts.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland. That it shall be the duty of the Board

of Police Commissioners for the City of Baltimore to

proceed forthwith to divide and lay off the city of Bal-

Divide and lay
off.

timore into one hundred and eighty election precincts,

having as nearly as possible an equal number of qual-

ified voters in each of said election precincts, and

being each as regular in form as is reasonably prac-

ticable; and to divide and lay off said election pre-

cincts in such manner that they may be thereafter

divided into twenty wards, which shall each con-

Divided into

tain nine of said election precincts, contiguous in

wards.

territory, and being each as regular in form as is

reasonably practicable; and such election precincts,

when so laid out, shall be numbered from number

How num-
bered.

one to number one hundred and eighty, both num-

bers included; and said numbering shall commence

from the eastern boundary of the city of Baltimore.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That when the said

one hundred and eighty election precincts are so

laid out by the said Board of Police Commissioners

for the city of Baltimore, as hereinbefore directed,

it shall be the duty of the said board to make, or

cause to be made, in a proper book, a careful de-

Describe

scription of the boundaries of each of the said elec-

boundaries.

tion precincts, so numbered as aforesaid, under its

proper number; and after making a careful and

exact copy of the same in another proper book, and

after verifying the said original book and said copy

by their signatures, to deposit the original book in

Deposit in

the clerk's office of the Superior Court of Baltimore

clerk's office.

City, and it shall be the duty of the said clerk of

the said court to record the same among the land

records of his said office, and a copy of the descrip-

tion, or descriptions contained in the said record of

the boundaries of any one or more election precincts

therein mentioned and described, shall be evidence

of the boundaries of such election precinct or elec-

tion precincts so laid out as aforesaid, and the copy