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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Baltimore City, and it shall be the duty of the said clerk of
the said court, to record the same among the Land Records of
his office, and a copy of the description or descriptions con-
tained in the said record of the boundaries of any one or
more wards therein mentioned and described, shall be evidence
of the boundaries of such ward or wards so laid out as afore-
said, and the copy of the said original book so made and so
verified, as aforesaid, by the said Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions of Baltimore City shall always be retained in the office of
the said board among the records of the said board.

Wards as
recorded to
be wards
of city.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when said book containing
the said descriptions of the said wards of the city of Balti-
more so laid out as aforesaid, has been deposited for record in
the clerk's office of the Superior Court of Baltimore City,
then the said wards, as in said book described, and laid, shall
thereafter be deemed to be the several wards of Baltimore
city.

To be made
within
thirty days.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
said Board of Supervisors of Elections to complete the said
work of dividing the said city of Baltimore into wards, as pro-
vided by this Act, and of preparing the books showing such
division as aforesaid, and of depositing for record the book
showing such division as hereinbefore directed within thirty
days after the passage of this Act.

Election
precincts.

SEC. 5. The said Board of Supervisors of Elections shall,
after the said wards shall be laid off as aforesaid, proceed to
divide each of said wards into a suitable number of election
precincts, in the manner prescribed in section 117 of Article
33 of the Code of Public General Laws, as the same was
amended and re-enacted by the Act of 1896, chapter 202, pro-
vided, however, that the said Board of Supervisors of Elec-
tions shall not be required to have published more than one
insertion of the advertisement of such precinct, or of the
boundaries of such precinct, required by said section 117 of
said Article 33 to be made.

Maps to be
made.

SEC. 6. The said Board of Supervisors of Elections in the
city of Baltimore shall cause maps to be made of the said new
wards and precincts in the manner required by section 118 of
Article 33 of the Code of Public General Laws, as amended
and re-enacted by the Act of 1896, chapter 202.

Effective.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved February 18, 1898.