LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

appointed ; and the said respective officers of registration, on
receiving the same, shall immediately receipt therefor to the
Mayor ; and in the same manner on the first Monday in March,
in the year nineteen hundred and four, and on the same date
every four years thereafter, similar registries shall be delivered
to said respective officers of registration, who shall accurately
transcribe into new registries (to be furnished by the Mayor in
the same manner as other registries are required to be furnished
by section 159 a of this Article.) The names of all registered
voters then appearing as qualified voters upon the old registries
delivered, as aforesaid, the year preceding the delivery of said
new registries.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved March 2, 1898.

CHAPTER 10.
AN ACT to provide for the re-division of the City of Bal-
timore into wards.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of

Effective.

Elections of Baltimore City to proceed forthwith to divide and
lay off the city of Baltimore into twenty-four wards, to be
each as regular and compact in form as may be practicable,
and having, according to the police census taken in December,
1897, as nearly as may reasonably be practicable, equal popu-
lation, and in such manner that no ward shall exceed or fall
short by more than fifteen per cent, the number of inhabitants
it would contain if it was so laid off as to include within its
boundaries precisely one twenty- fourth of the aggregate popu-
lation of the city, and the said Board of Supervisors shall num-
ber the said wards from one to twenty-four consecutively.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That when the said twenty-four
wards are so laid out by the said Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions of the city of Baltimore, as hereinbefore directed, it shall
be the duty of the said board to make or cause to be made, in

Divided into
twenty-four
wards.

a proper book, a careful description of the boundaries of each
of the said wards, so numbered as aforesaid, under its proper
number, and after making a careful and exact copy of the
same in another proper book, and after verifying the said origi-
nal book and the said copy by their signatures, to deposit the
original book in the clerk's office of the Superior Court of

Wards to be
described
and num-
bered.