PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 371

sub-title "Hagerstown," to follow Section 159-A, and to be
known as Section 159-A-2 of said Article; relating to regis-
tration and elections in Hagerstown, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That an additional Section be added to Article 22 of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Washington
County,'' sub-title '' Hagerstown,'' to follow Section 159-A, and
to be known as Section 159-A-2, and to read as follows:

SEC. 159-A-2. Whenever the number of registered voters in
any ward of Hagerstown, shall exceed six hundred, the Mayor
and Council of Hagerstown shall have authority, in their discre-
tion, to provide by ordinance for the sub-division of each ward
into two, or more precincts, prescribing the boundaries thereof,
and providing for a just and fair transcription or entry of the
registered voters of said ward upon registration books to be
furnished by the Mayor and Council, for the proper precinct
of said ward wherein said registered voters may reside at the
time of said sub-division of said ward into precincts as afore-
said. In making said subdivision of a ward into precincts care
shall be taken that the boundary lines thereof be so arranged
as to include in each precinct as near as possible the same num-
ber of persons entitled to vote in such ward. All the provisions
of law relating to the registration of voters and the manner of
conducting elections held in Hagerstown, at municipal elec-
tions therein, and applicable to the several wards of Hagers-
town as respective registration and election districts, are here-
by made applicable to the respective precincts into which any
such ward may be subdivided, said precincts to be different sub-
divisions of the ward for registration and election purposes in
said ward, and in this sense the words "precinct" and "ward"
shall be taken as convertible terms, in the provisions of Article
22, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Wash-
ington County," sub-title "Hagerstown;" relating to elections
in the City of Hagerstown, nothing herein contained, however,
to be construed as authorizing the election of more than one
councilman from each ward as now provided by law.

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

Approved April 1st, 1914.