ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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registrar shall make no transfer of voters upon his

personal knowledge, without application from such

voter, after this year, and said transfer shall be con-

Transfers —

fined to the division of the now registered vote of

how made.

said Cambridge district, or the changing from one

precinct to the other, provided that if the registrar

shall fail to make the proper transfer from one pre-

cinct to the other, the voter shall be entitled to vote

in the precinct where he remains duly registered.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the county com-

missioners of Dorchester county are hereby empow-

Appoint, elec-

ered and directed to appoint judges of election for

tion judges.

each of said precincts, at all elections hereafter to be

held.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That this act effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 364.

AN ACT to repeal article twenty-eight, section

fifteen, of the Code of Public General Laws of

eighteen hundred and sixty, title " County Com-

missioners," and to re-enact the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That section fifteen of article twenty-

eight of the Code of Public General Laws of eighteen

Repealed and

hundred and sixty, title " County Commissioners,"

re-enacted.

be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so

as to read as follows :

SEC. 15. Be it enacted, That whenever the county

commissioners shall decide that it is expedient that a

road be opened as provided in the preceding section,

they may contract with the owner or owners of the

land through which the said road is intended to run,

for the right of way over the land necessary for said

road, if he, she or they be competent to contract; and

in case the said county commissioners shall so contract,

they shall cause a plat of the said road to be made, by

File and record
plat.

a competent surveyor, and filed and recorded in the