ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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dicated, shall be known as " Precinct Number One,"

and the voting place shall be the court-house in Ches-

tertown; and all that part of said Chestertown district

number four, lying south and west of the aforesaid

Second precinct

division line, shall be known as " Precinct Number

Two," and the voting place shall be Pomona.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty

of the officers of registration in the said fourth elec-

tion district, at the first sitting of the said officers of

registration prior to the next general election, to desig-

nate on the registration books of the said district the

precinct in which each of the qualified registered voters

Dnty of regis-
tration officer.

resides, and shall prepare separate lists of voters for

the judges of election, according to the sub-division of
said district into precincts, as hereinbefore provided,

designating the election precincts of the district in

which the voters are or shall be respectively entitled

to vote, and deliver the same according to law.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty

of the commissioners of Kent county to appoint three-

Duty of com-

persons for each of said precincts, residents thereof, to

missioner.

act as judges of elections for said precincts, and who

shall perform the duties of their office in the manner

required by the election laws of the state of Maryland,

and such judges shall make their returns in the same

manner as if the said precincts were districts, and in

Returns— how

made.

accordance with the laws applicable to judges of elec-

tion for districts, and they shall receive the same com-

pensation as other judges of election in said county.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage, and that all acts

When effective.

and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of

this act be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved April S, 1884.