442                           THE COUNTIES OF MARYLAND

1834 Ch. 186. Part of the 5th election district added to the 6th as follows:
" Beginning at the first beginning line of the fifth and
sixth election districts, at the river which divided Anne
Arundel and Montgomery counties, near Triadelphia Fac-
tory, and running down with and binding on said river
below Benjamin Scrivenor's farm, and then running up
and binding on said big Branch, until it reaches a farm
on which Samuel Straughan now lives, and thence with a
straight line until it strikes a Branch on the west side of
the said house and then up said Branch until it intersects
the Roxbury Mill Road, leading to Porter's tavern where
it will intersect the divisional line between the fifth and
sixth election districts."

1836 Ch. 16. Division line between 3d and 4th election districts changed to
run from Poulton's old tavern along public road to Donald-
son's bridge on Patapsco and not to the lower ferry.

1838  Ch. 22. Erection of Howard District as a municipal jurisdiction.

1839  Ch. 49. Confirms Acts of 1838 Ch. 22.

1839  Ch. 104. Commission appointed to divide 1st district into 1st and 8th.

1840  Ch. 247. Polling place of 4th election district changed from Owen

Cecil's to Joshua Watts'.

1843 Ch. 35. Polling place of 1st election district fixed at Owensville.
1843 Ch. 220. Polling place of 1st election district changed to "at or near

the wind-mill, on the land of Bushrod W. Marriott."
1843 Ch. 298. Commissioners authorized to fix polling place for 2d election

district.
1846 Ch. 326. Polling place of 1st election district changed to be " at or

near store of Jacob W. Bird."
1849 Ch. 1. Polling place of 2d election district changed to Primary school

house near Eli Lusby's.
1849 Ch. 73. Polling place of 4th election district changed to a place near

Pumphrey's mill.
1853 Ch. 78. Commission appointed to erect an additional election district

out the 3d and 4th election district.
1872 Ch. 163. County Commissioners authorized to divide election districts

into election precincts.

BALTIMORE COUNTY.

The documents recording the original erection of Baltimore County
have never been found among the archives of the State, and no evidence
exists indicating whether its erection was due to a proclamation of the
Lord Proprietary or his representative, or to some action on the part of
the General Assembly. It has commonly been accepted that the county
came into being in 1659. There are no evidences of its existence prior