464                           THE COUNTIES OF MARYLAND

town to Westminster, thence with a straight course to the Pennsylvania line,
running North seventeen degrees East, thence with the Pennsylvania line to
the place of beginning."

The election districts of the county were laid off in the early part of
1837, but it was not until 1838 that the government of the county became
perfected. Commissioners to survey and mark the line between Balti-
more and Carroll counties were authorized by Acts of 1840, Ch. 10.

The settlement of Carroll County is discussed under Frederick and
Baltimore counties. It is of interest in this connection to note that for
a short time when the lands were first being taken up in the vicinity of
New Windsor and Union Bridge that this region was a part of Prince
George's County. The inhabitants came from the Scotch-Irish in the
vicinity of Gettysburg, and the Germans of York County as well as
from the English stock who worked their way inland from the settle-
ments along the tidewater. As early as 1740 the Monocacy road had
become in part a wagon road, a development from an earlier line of
pack-horse travel from Hanover westward to the Potomac. This became
the line of settlement during the early stages of development. Important
localities also sprang up along Little Pipe Creek and its tributaries in
the vicinity of Union Bridge.

Although established long after the boundaries of the State had been
finally settled the territory of Carroll County was the scene of bitter
controversy, often accompanied by bloodshed, regarding the territorial
limits of Pennsylvania and Maryland about the middle of the eigh-
teenth century. Most of these difficulties centered about Digg's Choice,
the tract of land southwest of Hanover claimed under Maryland and
Pennsylvania grants.

CARROLL COUNTY ELECTION DISTRICTS.

1798 Ch. 115. Included in Frederick and Baltimore counties until 1836.
See Baltimore county 1821 Ch. 38; 1822 Ch. 14; 1823 Ch.
65; 1824 Ch. 170; 1835 Ch. 125; Ch. 209; 1831 Ch. 232.

1835  Ch. 256. Erects Carroll County out of parts of Frederick and Balti-

more counties.

1836  Ch. 19. Confirms Acts of 1835 Ch. 256.

1836 Ch. 32. Commission appointed to lay off 9 separate election districts.
1836 Ch. 37. Supplemental bill substituting one Commissioner.