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SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
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5; at the town of Boonsborough, for district No. 6; and at the vil-
lage of Cave-town, for district No. 7. And it shall be the especial
duty of the said commissioners, or those who may act as before di-
rected, to lay off the said number of districts, having due regard to
population, extent of territory, and the convenience of those enti-
tled to vote at such places of holding elections. The said commis-
sioners are hereby directed and required, on or before the first day
of July next, to make out and deliver to the clerk of the county
aforesaid, a plain and accurate description in writing, of the limits
and boundaries of each district so laid off, certified under their
hands and seals; and the said clerk shall make a fair record of the
same among the records of the county aforesaid.
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Dec. Ses. 1821.
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2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners appointed by
virtue of this act, shall meet at the borough of Hagers-Town, on
the first Monday of April next, for the purpose of carrying into
effect the provisions of this act, and may adjourn from time to time,
and from place to place, until they shall have performed the duties
required of them by this act.
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Meeting,
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3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the clerk of
the county aforesaid, to furnish the sheriff of said county with two
copies of the limits and boundaries of the districts ascertained and
described by the commissioners aforesaid, whose duty it shall be
to keep one in his possession, to set one copy up at the door of the
court-house of the said county, and to cause the same to be pub-
lished at- least six weeks successively prior to the next election, in
each of the public papers printed in the said county.
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Copies of li-
mits to be pub-
lished.
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4. And be it enacted, That for the performance of the duties
required of the commissioners aforesaid, and for the printing here-
by required to be done, the Levy Court of the county aforesaid
shall make reasonable compensation, and shall levy the amount of
the same upon the said county, which said levy shall be paid and
collected as other county charges are paid and collected.
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Compensation.
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CHAPTER 71.
A supplement to an act entitled, "An act for the benefit of the Havre-
De-Grace Bank."
Whereas, It has been represented to this general assembly,
that a mistake occurred in the act to which this is a supplement, by
using the word "eleven" instead of "ten" in the third section of
the said act; and whereas, the number of directors in the Havre-de-
Grace Bank was "ten" and not "eleven," as will more fully ap-
pear by reference to the act entitled, "An act for the benefit of the
Havre-de-Grace Bank, passed at December session eighteen hun-
dred and twenty, chapter one hundred and eighty nine, and that it
was intended by the act to which this is a supplement to reduce the
number of directors of said bank from "ten" to "seven"—There-
fore,
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Passed Jan. 21,
1822.
Preamble.
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Sec. 1. Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the act to which this is a supplement shall have the same
force, operation and effect, to all intents and purposes whatsoever,
as if at the time of passing the said act, the word "ten" had been
used instead of "eleven," in the third section of the said act, and
that the said seven directors of the Havre-de-Grace Bank, shall
have and possess all the rights, powers, authority and privileges,
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Original act to
have force.
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