"WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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wards to be by them so divided and numbered, shall

contain nine of the election precincts, so laid out as

aforesaid by the Board of Police Commissioners for

the city of Baltimore as aforesaid; which said elec-

tion precincts, so to be included in each ward, shall

be contiguous in territory; and the said wards shall

be as regular in form as may be reasonably practi-

cable; and the said election precincts so grouped

How grouped.

into wards, shall be so grouped without reference to

the numerical sequence of said election precincts as

the same were numbered by the said Board of Po-

lice Commissioners for the city of Baltimore in lay-

ing off thereof as shown by the record thereof,

made and recorded as aforesaid.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the ordinance of

said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, laying

off each of said wards, shall contain an exact de-

scription of the external boundaries of each of the

External,
boundaries.

said twenty wards, so laid out and divided as afore-

said, and under the heading of each description of

the boundaries of each of said wards, shall contain

an exact description of the external boundaries of

each election precinct making a part of the said

ward, and they shall number each of said precincts,

in each of said wards, from number one to number

nine, both numbers included; and shall, after the

numbers of each precinct of each ward, so num-

bered in said ordinance, put in brackets the original

Bracket origi-

division number of said precinct, as shown in the

nal division.

original record of the division of the said city of

Baltimore into election precincts, made by the

Board of Police Commissioners for the city of Bal-

timore as aforesaid, and recorded as aforesaid.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty

of the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore

to complete the work of dividing the said election

Time to com-
plete it.

precincts into wards, laid out as by this act directed,

within sixty days after the passage of this act.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That it shall also be

the duty of the said Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore, as soon as the said city of Baltimore is

divided into twenty wards, as is by this act directed,

to proceed to divide, by ordinance, the said twenty

Divide into
legislative dis-

wards into three legislative districts, which said

tricts.

division shall be made in manner following: That

is to say, the first six wards of the city of Baltimore,