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of all that portion of Washington County lying west of Sideling Hill
Creek. In this way the boundaries of Washington County were finally
fixed as they are found to-day.

WASHINGTON COUNTY ELECTION DISTRICTS.

1798  Ch. 115. Divides county into 5 election districts.
1799. Ch. 48. Confirms Acts of 1798 Ch. 115.

1799  Ch. 50. Commissioners appointed to divide county into 5 election dis-

tricts.

1800  Ch. 59. Line between 4th and 5th election districts closed and com-

pleted by a line due north from the head of the head of
the Green Spring Furnace Run to Pennsylvania.

1801  Ch. 59. Commission appointed to change lines and report to County

Clerk.

1802  Ch. 66. Repealed by 1805 Ch. 97.

1816 Ch. 37. Polling place of 5th election district changed to Hancock.

1819  Ch. 188. County divided into 6 election districts and Boonsborough is

new place of election, 26. district elections at Williams-
port [not confirmed?]

1820  Ch. 85. County divided into 7 districts, the new voting places being

Boonsborough and Cave Town, No. 2, to be at Williamsport.

1821  Ch. 29. Confirms Acts of 1820 Ch. 85.

1821 Ch. 70. Levy Court directed to appoint committee to select election
places and lay out election districts, 1st Sharpsburg, 2
Williamsport, 3 Hagerstown, 4 Clear Spring, 5 Hancock,
6 Boonsborough, 7 Cavetown. Report to County Court by
July 1822.

1823 Ch. 100. Polling place of 3d election district to be in any house in
Hagerstown provided consent of owner or tenant is ob-
tained but not in court house.

1832  Ch. 92. Line between election districts 1 and 6 changed. (Repealed

1835 Ch. 225.)

1833  Ch. 30. Confirms Acts of 1832 Ch. 92. (Repealed 1835 Ch. 225.)

1834  Ch. 114. Erects 9th election district out of parts of 3d and 7th dis-

tricts.

1834 Ch. 166. Parts of 2d and 3d election districts annexed to 4th election
district.

" beginning at a point where the division line between
Andrew Summer and John Witmer crosses the Conoco-
cheague Creek, thence, with a straight line, to the division
line between Samuel and David Gruber, and John S. Mil-
ler, thence with that division line to the Hagerstown and
Conococheague Turnpike Road, thence with a straight line
to and with the division line between Henry Harsh and