ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1307

erecting new and additional precincts; and providing for the
employment of a competent surveyor to map, plat, reduce to
courses and distances all Election Districts and any new pre-
cincts established under this Act; providing for the compen-
sation of said surveyor and his assistants and also providing
for the compensation of the members of said Board of Super-
visors of Elections and its appointees from the Treasury of
Allegany County, Maryland, and repealing all Acts or parts
of Acts inconsistent with the terms and provisions of this
Act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of
Elections and they are hereby authorized, directed and empow-
ered, to cause a survey to be begun in the month of January
in the year Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-eight, of the sev-
eral Election Districts and Precincts in Allegany County, Mary-
land, examining the boundaries and lines thereof and in their
discretion they shall sub-divide said Election Districts into pre-
cincts and they are hereby authorized and empowered to estab-
lish such new and additional precincts as in their discretion
as will best facilitate and expedite the casting of ballots by the
voters therein, changing such lines and boundaries thereof as
may be deemed expedient; provided, however, that no new pre-
cinct shall be established in any Election District unless there
shall be in excess of five hundred (500) registered voters in said
District, and the sub-division of any Election District shall
not be made whereby any precinct shall contain less than two
hundred voters (200), and provided, further, that any Elec-
tion District having more than eight hundred (800) voters regis-
tered therein shallbe divided into such precincts as said Board
in their discretion deem necessary to facilitate and expedite the
casting of ballots; after said Board of Supervisors of Elections
shall cause said survey to be made and determine upon the
number of precincts to be erected, it is hereby authorized, di-
rected and empowered to employ a competent surveyor who
shall, under its direction, map, plat and reduce to courses and
distances all Election Districts and precincts, including the pre-
cincts established under the terms and provisions of this Act,
using as far as possible, streets, roads, lanes, alleys and natural
boundaries for the lines thereof; said survey shall be completed
on or before the third week in the month of Miarch, 1928, and
when so completed it shall be filed in the Office of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for Allegany County, and be recorded
among the Land Records thereof as "Boundary Lines of Elec-
tion Districts and Precincts in Allegany County, Maryland,
1928", and when so filed it shall become the official record of
said Election Districts and Precincts.