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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the fourth district shall include the fourth, eighth and eleventh
election districts; and the fifth district shall include the fifth,
ninth and twelfth election districts of said county.
Queen Anne's and Somerset counties shall, respectively, con-
stitute one assessment district each.
Saint Mary's county shall be divided into two assessment
districts; the first district shall be composed of the first, second,
sixth, eighth and ninth election districts; and the second dis-
trict shall be composed of the third, fourth, fifth and seventh
election districts of said county.
Talbot county shall constitute one assessment district.
Washington county shall be divided into nine assessment dis-
tricts; the first district shall be composed of the fourth, fifth
and fifteenth election districts; the second shall be composed
of the second, thirteenth and twenty-third election districts ;
the third shall be composed of the third and twenty-first elec-
tion districts; the fourth shall be composed of the seventeenth
and twenty-second election districts; the fifth shall be com-
posed of the seventh, ninth, fourteenth and eighteenth election
districts; the sixth shall be composed of the sixth, tenth and
sixteenth election districts; the seventh shall be composed of
the first, eighth and eleventh election districts; the eighth shall
be composed of the twelfth, nineteenth and twentieth election
districts; and the ninth shall be composed of the twenty-fourth
and twenty-fifth election districts of said county.
Wicomico and Worcester counties shall, respectively, consti-
tute one assessment district each.

Omitted
territory.

165. If any election district or districts, or part or parts of
the territory of any county or of Baltimore city, is or are not
included in any assessment district provided in this act, the
same shall be included in such assessment district or respective
districts as the Governor of this State shall direct.

Appointment
of assessors
at large.

166. The Governor of this State shall appoint two suitable
persons from each of the aforesaid assessment districts in the
several counties of this State, who shall be designated and act
as "assessor at large" for such assessment districts for which
they shall be respectively appointed, and in making such ap-
pointments, the said assessors at large for each of said assess-
ment districts shall be selected from the two leading political
parties in this State, that is to say, one from each of said politi-
cal parties; and in making such appointments, the Governor
shall select such appointees from a list of three persons each,
from each of said assessment districts, whose names shall have