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Session Laws, 1896 Session
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LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

517

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sections ninety-six, ninety-seven and ninety-eight of
Article fifteen of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Kent
County," sub-title "Election Districts," be and the same are

Repeal

hereby repealed and re-enacted as follows :
96. Kent county is divided into seven election districts.

97. The first election district shall begin at the point on the
boundary line between the States of Maryland and Delaware,

Election
districts.

where Kent county joins Queen Anne's county; and running
thence by and with said State line northwardly to the line of
Cecil county, then westerly with the division line between
Cecil county and Kent and with Sassafras river to Mill creek,
then up Mill creek to the head thereof and southerly to the
public road leading from Lambson's to Chesterville, then with
said public road through Chesterville and to Chester river at
Crumpton, then up Chester river and with the division line
between Kent and Queen Anne's counties to the beginning.
The first election district is divided into two voting precincts,
to be known as the Millington precinct, comprising all that
part of the said first district which lies south of the Baltimore
and Delaware Bay Railroad, with the voting place at Milling-
ton, and the Galena precinct, comprising all that part of the
said district which lies north of the said Baltimore and Dela-
ware Bay Railroad, with the voting place at Galena.

First district.

98. The second election district shall begin at Mill creek on
Sassafras river, and running down Sassafras river to the public
road at Betterton, then with the said public road from Better-
ton to the intersection of said road with the public road from
Coleman to Lynch's, then with that public road to Lynch's,
and thence with the public road to Riley's mill on Morgan
creek, then with Morgan creek to Chester river, then up
Chester river to the public road at Crumpton, then with said
public road to Chesterville and with the public road towards
Lambson to the line of the first district, then with that line
northerly to Mill creek, and with Mill creek to the beginning
on Sassafras river, with the voting place at Kennedy ville.

Second
district

SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the following sections be, and are hereby added to
Article 15 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Kent
County," to be designated sections 98 A, 98 B, 98 C, 98 D and

98 E.

New sections


98 A, The third election district shall be as follows: Begin
ning at the public road at Betterton, on Sassafras river, and run
ning down Sassafras river and down Chesapeake bay to the

Third districts



 
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