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Session Laws, 1882 Special Session
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WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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at the regular election to be held for a member of

 

Congress on the Tuesday after the first Monday of

 

November, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-

 

two, which election shall be held in accordance with

Election—
how held.

the law governing general elections in this State;

 

in addition to the usual notice of such elections the

 

sheriff of said county shall give notice of the elec-

 

tion to be held by virtue of this act by advertise-

 

ment inserted in all the newspapers published in

 

said county, and by handbills posted in each elec-

 

tion district in said county, at least ten days before

 

said election, in which notice a copy of this act shall

 

be inserted, and the expenses of said advertisements

 

and handbills shall be levied and paid for by the

 

county commissioners of said county.

 

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That at said election

 

the legal and qualified voters of said county are au-

 

thorized to cast a separate ballot, for or against said re-

 

moval, which said ballots shall have written or printed

Ballots— how-
prepared.

on them the words ''For removal" or "Against

 

removal," and shall be received by the judges of

 

election and deposited by them in a box provided

 

for the purpose; and said tickets shall be counted

 

by the said judges, who shall make return of said

 

votes to the clerk of the Circuit Court for Charles

 

county, who shall, within ten days thereafter, make

 

proclamation of the result of said election by pub-

Result pro-
claimed.

lication in the newspapers published in said county;

 

and it if shall be found by the said returns of the

 

judges and the proclamation of said clerk that more

 

votes were cast "Against removal" than "For re-

 

moval," then this act shall be nugatory and of no

 

effect.

 

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That if it shall be

 

found by said returns and the proclamation of the

 

elerk of the Circuit Court that more votes were

 

cast "For removal " than "Against removal," thence-

Location of

forth La Plata shall be the county seat of said

county seat.

county, and a court-house and a jail, together with

 

necessary offices for the transaction of the public

 

business, shall be built at La Plata.

 

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That John G. Chap-

 

man, John H. Mitchell, Benj G. Stonestreet, John

 

Hoffman and Pere Wilmer, Jr., of Charles county and

Building com-
mittee.

State of Maryland, be and they are hereby consti-

 

tuted a building committee for the purpose of having

 


 
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