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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1824
Proviso.

perty, shall reconvey the said property, or pay over the amount
received for such part of said property as may have been sold by
them, except for so much of the property as was sold under a fieri
facias to satisfy a judgment rendered previous to the said convey-
ance, to the trustee to be appointed by the said court for the creditors
of the said Ezra Mantz, Gideon Mantz and David Mantz; And pro-
vided, that the judges of Frederick county court shall be sa-
tisfied that the said Ezra Mantz, Gideon Mantz and David Mantz
have not acted fraudulently towards their creditors or any of them.

Passed Jan.
31, 1825.

Preamble.

CHAPTER 84.
An act to repeal all such parts of the constitution and form of government
as relate to the division of Frederick county into eleven election districts
and for other purposes.

Whereas, it is represented to this General Assembly of Mary-
land, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of Frederick county,
that they experience great inconvenience from the magnitude of the
third election district in said county, operating to deprive many of
their suffrages, who are entitled to the exercise of that right; and as
it is desirable that the full, free and fair voice of the people should
be expressed in their choice of the functionaries of government;
Therefore,

Former divi-
sion repealed.

Twelve dis-
tricts.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That all such parts of the constitution and form of government as
direct that Frederick county shall be divided into eleven election
districts, be, and the same are hereby repealed.
•- 2. And be it enacted, That Frederick county shall be divided
into twelve seperate election districts, and the additional district
shall be taken and laid off from the third election district as they
are now numbered.

Commission-

ers named
and instruct-
ed.

' 3. And be it enacted, That Patrick McGill, senior, Benjamin
West, John Thomas, Henry Culler, Erasmus Garrott of the third
election district of the county aforesaid, be, and they are hereby
authorized and appointed or a majority of them, commissioners
to lay off and divide anew the third election district into two elec-
tion districts, and to number the new election district formed out
of the third election district; and to make choice of a place in the
said new election district so laid off at which the elections shall
be held, having due regard to the accommodations of persons at-
tendant upon such elections; and the said commissioners shall on
or before the third Monday in April, eighteen hundred and twen-
ty-six, deliver to the clerk of Frederick county court, a description
in writing under their hands and seals, specifying plainly the boun-
daries and number of the election district so laid off by them; and
also the place where the elections for such district shall be held;
and the said clerk shall record the same in the records of said
county.

Sheriff to give

notice.

4. And be it enacted, That the sheriff of Frederick county shall
give notice of the place of holding the election in such election dis-
tricts so laid off anew, by causing the same to be inserted in one or
more newspapers, printed in Frederick county once a week for at
least two months previous to holding the election in October, eigh-
teen hundred and twenty-six.

Vacancies.

5, And be it enacted, That if any of the commissioners named
in this act, shall refuse to accept his appointment before the first