SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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alter, change and repeal all such parts of the constitution and form

of government of this state, as relate to the division of Queen Ann's
county, into election districts, and of the act entitled, An act to
confirm an act entitled, "An act to alter, change and repeal all such
parts of the constitution and form of government of this state, as
relates to the division of Queen Ann's county into election dis-
tricts carefully.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall lay
off that part of Queen Ann's county, which heretofore constituted
the first and second election districts of said county, into three elec-
tion districts as nearly equal as the convenience of voters, extent of
country and population will require; and each election district of
said county shall be numbered by the said commissioners, and
known thereafter by such number; and the said commissioners shall
also make choice of a place in each district to be laid off, at which
the elections for such districts so to be laid off, shall be held
as nearly central as practicable, having regard to the circum-
stances aforesaid, and the accommodation of persons attend-
ant upon such elections; and the said commissioners or a ma-
jority of them, or a majority of the survivors of them, shall,
on or before the twentieth day of June next, make out and
deliver to the clerk of the county court of said county,
a description in writing under their hands and seals, specifying
plainly the boundaries of each district to be laid off, and the number
of each district in said county, and also the place in each district so
to be laid oil, where the elections for such district shall be held, and
the said clerk shall record the same in the records of said county.

To meet.

3. And be it Enacted, That the commissioners appointed by
this act, or a majority of them, or a majority of the survivors of them,
shall meet at Centreville in said county, on the first Tuesday in the
month of May next, for the purpose of performing the duties impos-
ed by this act; and the commissioners or commissioner so meeting,
may adjourn from time to time, and from place to place, until the
whole is completed.

Judges of e-
lections.

4. And be it enacted, That the levy court of Queen Ann's
county shall, according to the provisions of the act to which this
act is a further additional supplement, appoint three persons in each
district in said county, residents therein, who, or such of whom as
shall attend, shall be the judge or judges of the elections for the
district for which he or they shall have been appointed as aforesaid.

Laws to con-
tinue in force.

5. And be it enacted, That all laws now in force with respect
to the time, manner and mode of conducting and regulating elec-
tions in the several counties of this state, shall be, and they are here-
by declared to be in full force and effect in Queen Ann's county.
6. And be it enacted, That for services performed in virtue
of this act, the levy court of said county shall make reasonable com-
pensation out of the county levies.

Compensati-
on.

CHAPTER 93.

A supplement to an act entitled, An act for the improvement of the
public roads in Kent county.
Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the first Monday in April next, it shall not be law-
ful for the levy court of Kent county to allow to any supervisor of

Passed Jan. 26,
1822.
Compensation
of supervisors
of roads, &c.