MARYLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY                         463

requested, but the phraseology in describing the various points differs
somewhat. The intent of the memorialists was also somewhat changed
by the insertion of the name Carroll County, and by the provision that
the majority of the inhabitants in the parts of each of the counties
included should confirm the Act. The first modification seemed to be
entirely popular, but the second was the occasion of much agitation.
There was an exciting campaign of education prior to the fall election
when the question was decided adversely to the erection of a new county
by a narrow margin in Baltimore County. The method of procedure
called for by the original Act was also open to criticism. A report of
the Committee on Grievances and Courts of Justice reviewing the con-
stitutional question respecting Carroll County¹⁷ appeared in the Mary-
land Public Documents of the December session. According to the
majority report the law was held to be unconstitutional since it deviated
from the methods authorized for amending the State constitution by
specifying that the same should be confirmed by a popular vote rather
than by a subsequent Legislature. During the legislative session of
1835-6 a new bill was introduced which was finally passed on March
25, 1836, and confirmed January 19, 1837,¹⁸ erecting Carroll County.
It had been conclusively shown by the vote taken in 1833 that such por-
tions of Liberty and Newmarket districts of Frederick County as had
been included in the original bill were opposed to separation from
Frederick County. The new law accordingly excluded these and the
boundary was determined as follows:

" Beginning at the Pennsylvania line, where Rock Creek crosses said line,
thence with the course of said creek until it merges in the Monocacy river,
thence with the Monocacy to the point where Double Pipe Creek empties into
Monocacy, thence with the course of Pipe Creek to the point of junction of
Little Pipe Creek and Big Pipe Creek, thence with the course of Little Pipe
Creek, to the point where Sam's Creek empties into Little Pipe Creek, thence
with Sam's Creek to Warfield's Mill, thence with the road called Buffaloe
Road, and to a point called Par's Spring, thence with the Western Branch
of the Patapsco Falls to the point of its junction with the Northern Branch
of Patapsco Falls, thence with the North Branch of the said Falls to the
bridge erected over said Falls on the Turnpike Road, leading from Reisters-

¹⁷ I am indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Louis H. Dielman for calling my
attention to this elusive little pamphlet.
¹⁸ Acts of 1835, Ch. 256; 1836, Ch. 77.