LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Adams and Philip S. Yates, be, and they are hereby appointed and
authorised, or a majority of them, or a majority of the survivors of
them, commissioners to lay off Dorchester county into six separate
election districts, and to number the same, having regard to the po-
pulation and extent of the same, and the convenience of the voters,
and also having regard to the convenience especially of that part of
the population of Dorchester county inhabiting the part of the county
included between the branches of the Nanticoke River, commonly
called the Fork, so that the same may be erected and laid off by the
commissioners into (a) separate election district, and also to make
choice of a place in each district at which the elections shall be held,
as nearly central as shall be practicable, having regard to the circum-
stances aforesaid, and the accommodation of persons attendant upon
such elections, and the said commissioners shall, on or before the first
day of April next, deliver to the clerk of Dorchester county court,
a description in writing, under their hands and seals, specifying plain-
ly the boundaries and number of each district which shall be divided
and laid off under the (this) act, and also the place in each district,
where the election for such district shall be hereafter held, and the

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said clerk shall record the same among the records of the county.
2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners appointed by virtue
of this act, shall meet at the usual place of holding the county court
in said county, on the first Monday in March next, for the purpose of
performing the duties under this act, and the commissioners so meet-
ing may adjourn from time to time, and place to place until the whole
be completed.

Time of meet-
ing.

3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the clerk of Dor-
chester county to furnish to the sheriff of said county four copies of
the proceedings of the said commissioners, who shall cause one copy
of trie same to be set up at the court-house door of said county, at
least three weeks before the next election, and who also shall cause
One other copy to be set up at each place of holding the election on

Copy of pro-
ceedings.

the day of the next election.
4. And be it enacted, For all services performed by the commissi-
oners aforesaid by virtue of this act, the levy court of Dorchester
county shall make reasonable compensation, and shall levy the same
upon the said county, and the same shall be collected and paid as

Compensa-
tion,

Other county charges.
5. And be it enacted, That this act shall be deemed and considered
as having no effect to increase the number of districts or to change
the place of holding the elections of the said county, as at present
fixed, unless the act, entitled, An act to repeal all that part of the
constitution and form of government as relates to the division of
Dorchester county into five seperate election districts, passed at last
session, be confirmed by this session of the general assembly.

Conditions.

CHAPTER 6.

An act to confirm an act entitled. An act to alter and repeal such farts
of the constitution and form of government of this state, as relates
to. the division of Frederick county, into election districts.

Passed Dec
16, 1822.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That an act
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, enti-
tled, An act to alter and repeal such parts of the constitution and form
of government of this state as relates to the division of Frederick
county into election districts shall be and the same is hereby confirmed.

Act of 1821
confirmed.