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MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY                          563

Salisbury. Records between 1742 and 1867 should be on file at Snow
Hill, the county-town of Worcester County.

WICOMICO COUNTY ELECTION DISTRICTS.

Prior to 1867 included in Somerset and Worcester coun-
ties.

See Acts of 1798 Ch. 115; 1799 Ch. 48, 50; 1824 Ch. 146;
1825 Ch. 27; 1837 Ch. 356; 1838 Ch. 12; 1841 Ch. 36; 1847
Ch. 246; [1852 Ch. 24; 1853 Ch. 301; 1854 Ch. 312]; 1860
Ch. 165.
1.868 Ch. 24. Defines the limits of several election districts.

f< District number one, or Barren Creek, shall be and
remain as it is now defined by law; district number two,
or Quantico, shall be and remain as it is now defined and
limited by law; district number three, or Tyaskin, shall
also be and remain as it is now bounded by law; dis-
trict number four, or Pittsburg, shall embrace all that
part of the district formerly called Cross Roads, em-
braced and included within the following limits: begin-
ning; and Pittsburg, formerly Cross Roads, shall be the
line of the State of Delaware, thence running by and with
said channel to bridge called Givan's bridge, thence with
a road to a place called St. James' Chapel, thence with a
line drawn due west to the line of Parsons' or Nutters'
district, at the head of Nassawango creek, thence by and
with the line of Parsons' district to the line of the State
of Delaware, thence by and with said line to the begin-
ning where the channel of the Pocomoke river crosses the
place of voting for said district. Number five or Parsons'
district, shall be and remain as now defined by law.
Number six, or Dennis' district, shall embrace all the ter-
ritory south of Pittsburg district to the line of Worcester
and Wicomico counties, and all east of the main branch
of the Nassawango creek, and Powellsville shall be the
place of holding the elections in said district. District
number seven, or Trappe, shall be and remain as now
fixed by law, except that part which was taken off by the
dividing line of Wicomico from Somerset county and the
Trappe, shall be and remain the place of holding the elec-
tions. District number eight, or Nutters', shall be and
remain as now fixed by law, except that part taken off by
the new county line, and that part which was formerly
Coulborn's district on the west side of Nassawango creek,
which is by this Act embraced within the limits of Nutters'
district. Number nine, or Saulsbury district, shall be and
remain as now fixed by law. District number ten, or
Sharpstpwn, shall be and remain as now defined by law.

 

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