JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1826

of this state, made Such by the act of eighteen hundred and
twenty-one, which directs that Queen-Anne's county shall be
divided and laid off into four separate districts, be and the
same is hereby repealed.

CHAP. 180.

2. And be it enacted, That Queen-Anne's county shall be ,
divided into five separate election districts, and that the third
election district of said county shall be subdivided, and two
election districts be Established therein.

County divided
into five districts

3. And be it enacted, That if this act shall be confirmed by
the general assembly of Maryland, after the next election of
delegates, in the first session after such new election, as the
constitution and form of government directs, in such case this
act, and the alterations herein contained, shall constitute and be
considered a part of said constitution and form of government,
to all intents and purposes, any thing herein contained to the
contrary notwithstanding.

When confirmed
to be part of con-
stitution

CHAP. CLXXXI.

An Act to repeal all that part of the Constitution and Form of Government
as relates to the division of Dorchester County into six separate Election
Districts.

Passed Mar 9, 1827

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland
That all that part of the constitution and form of government,
whereby Dorchester county hath been divided and laid off into
six separate election districts, be and the same is hereby repeal-
ed.

Repeal of consti-
tution

2. And be it enacted, That Dorchester county shall be di-
vided into seven separate election districts.
3. And be it enacted, That if this act shall be confirmed by
the general assembly of Maryland, after the next election of de-
legates, in the first session after such new election, as the con-
stitution and form of government directs, in such case this act,
and the alterations herein contained, shall constitute and be con-
sidered as a part of the said constitution and form of govern-
ment, to all intents and purposes, any thing therein contained
to the contrary notwithstanding.

County divided in-
to seven districts

When confirmed
to be a part of
coustitution

CHAP. CLXXXII.
An Act relative to the Lands of which James Busick, of Dorchester County,
died seized intestate.

WHEREAS the petition of Levin Richardson, of Dorchester
county, sheweth, that sometime in the year eighteen hundred
and twenty-three, a certain James Busick, of the said county,
died intestate, seized and possessed of certain real estate, leav-
ing the following children, his heirs at law, viz. Elizabeth, who
intermarried with your petitioner, Mary who intermarried with
Hiram W. Woolford, Henrietta, who intermarried with Zacha-
riah Linthicum, and James, Levin, and Rose Ann Busick, who
are minors; and that in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-
four, your petitioner obtained from the judges of Dorchester
county court a commission to value and divide the said real es-
tate between the said children and heirs at law; and that the
commissioners on said real estate did determine, and return to
the said court, that the said real estate would not admit of a di-

Passed Mar 9, 1827
Preamble