LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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allowance shall exceed two-thirds of the amount by him paid over to

the court.

Dec Ses. 1822

5. And be it enacted, That any constable who refuses or neglects to
comply with the requisitions of this act, shall be subject to a fine of
not more than $10 nor less than $3, to be recovered, with the costs,
in the county court where the offence may happen, by indictment.

Penalty.

6. And be it enacted, That no slave being a pilot, and hiring him-
self as such, shall be subject to the provisions of this act, nor shall
other slaves be arrested for a violation thereof during twenty days in
time of harvest.

Exception.

7. And be it enacted, That it shall be, and it is hereby made the
duty of the presiding judge in the county to which the operation of
this act is confined, to give this act in charge to the grand jury on the
first day of the meeting of the county court during the continuance of
this act.

Grand Jury.

8. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the acts of assembly,
and of the act to which this is a supplement, as are inconsistent with,
or repugnant to the provisions of this act, be, and the same are here-
by repealed.

Repeal.

CHAPTER 116.

An act to repeal ail such parts of the constitution and form of govern-
ment as relate to the division of Anne Arundel county into five sepa-
rate election districts, and for other purposes.
lie it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all
such parts of the constitution and form of government, which re-
late to the division of Anne Arundel county into five election dis-
tricts, except as to the first, second and third districts, be, and the
same are hereby repealed.

Passed Feb.
6, 1823.

Repeal.

2. And be it enacted, That James H. Marriott, Francis Belmear
and George Andrews, of the fourth district, in the county aforesaid,
and Richard Ridgely, Thomas Burgess and Henry Willing, of the
fifth district of the county aforesaid, be, and they are hereby autho-
rised and appointed, or a majority of them, commissioners to lay off
and divide anew the fourth and fifth election districts, or the fifth
election district only, which ever they shall deem will tend most to the
convenience to the voters in said districts in Anne Arundel county,
into not exceeding three separate election districts, in case they shall
deem it most advisable to divide and lay off the fourth and fifth
districts as aforesaid; and in case they shall deem it most advisable
to divide and lay off anew the fifth district only, they shall not divide
nor lay it off into mote than two separate election districts care-
fully making the districts so as aforesaid to be laid off as nearly
equal as possible, having regard to the population, extent and con-
venience of the voters of each of said districts, and said election dis-
trict or districts so laid off anew shall be numbered (if the fourth and
fifth districts are divided) four, five and six, if only the fifth district
shall be divided anew, they shall be numbered five and six, by the
said commissioners, and known thereafter by such numbers; and also
to make choice of a place in each district so laid off anew at which
the elections shall be held, as nearly central as practicable, having re-
gard to the circumstances as aforesaid, and the accommodation of
persons attendant upon such elections; and the said commissioners
shall, on or before the third Monday in April, eighteen hundred and
twenty-four, deliver to the clerk of Anne Arundel county court, a
description in writing, under their hands and seals, specifying plain
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Commission-
ers to lay off