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1847 Ch. 164. Commission appointed to lay out, from parts of election dis-
tricts 3 and 4, Cunningham district No. 10.
1849 Ch: 401. County Commissioners authorized to divide election district
No. 3 into two wards or to erect the Funkstown or 10th
district.
1852 Ch. 61. Commission appointed to form Sandy Hook election district
out of 1 and 8.
1852 Ch. 126. Amends preceding by modification of commission.
1852 Ch. 223. Erects additional election district out of parts of Sharpsburg,
Williamsport, and Boonsboro' districts contiguous to each
other, commencing for the boundaries of said district, at
the college of St. James, then to the mouth of a lane, on
the Hagerstown and Sharpsburg road, one mile north of
Jones' cross roads, thence east with the division line of
district number six and ten, to the Antietam creek, thence
with said creek, to a bridge crossed by a road leading
from Keedysville to Bakersville, thence with said road to
the schoolhouse in Smoketown, thence with the road via
John Poffenberger's, to Dorenberger's warehouse, thence
with the Potomac river two miles, thence with a straight
line to a house on the Williamsport and Sharpsburg road,
one-fourth of a mile west of Mount Moriah school house,
thence with a straight line to the place of beginning."
1854 Ch, 206. Additional election district erected out of part of the 5th
election district.
" Beginning at the mouth of a run emptying into the
Potomac river, in election district number five, known as
Doctor Jacque's saw mill run, thence to the Pennsylvania
line, near a new bridge across Licking creek, in Pennsylva-
nia, thence east along the Pennsylvania line, to the top
of a fountain commonly called Blair's valley mountain,
and with the top of said mountain to the turnpike at Pair-
view, thence with the turnpike to William Kline's, thence,
with the top of the stone quarry ridge to the Potomac, on
the lands of Tobias Johnson, thence to the Potomac river,
thence along the bed of said river to the place of be-
ginning."
1856 Ch. 326. Changes polling place of the 7th election district to Smiths-
burg.
1858 Ch. 47. Erects Cunningham Cross Roads (13th) election district out
of parts of the 3d and 4th districts.
1860 Ch. 87. Confirms division of county into 13 election districts and
authorizes commissioners to erect new ones as necessary.
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