502                           THE COUNTIES OF MARYLAND

GARRETT COUNTY ELECTION DISTRICTS.

Prior to 1872 included in Allegany County.

See also under Allegany County 1798 Ch. 115; 1799 Ch.
48, 50; 1805 Ch. 97; 1814 Ch. 34; 1817 Ch. 15; 1821 Ch.
133; 1835 Ch. 44; 1836 Ch. 2, 44; 1837 Ch. 183; 1841 Ch.
82; 1848 Ch. 396; 1849 Ch. 4, 282, 394, 463; 1852 Ch. 218;
1853 Ch. 289; 1856 Ch. 156, 221; 1860 Ch. 167, 310; 1862
Ch. 4; 1872 Ch. 79.
1872 Ch. 212. Separates Garrett County with the following boundary:

. " All that part of Allegany county lying south and west
of a line beginning at the summit of Big Back Bone or
Savage Mountain where that mountain is crossed by
Mason's and Dixon's line, and running thence by a straight
line to the middle of Savage River where it empties into
the Potomac River; thence by a straight line to the
nearest point or boundary of the State of West Virginia;
then with the said boundary to the Fairfax Stone shall be
a new county to be called the county of Garrett."

1874 Ch. 307. Creating Garrett County as a part of the sixth Congressional
district which shall be composed of Allegany County,
Garrett County, Washington County, Frederick County,
and Montgomery County.

1874 Ch. 369. An act to redistrict and renumber the election districts in
Garrett County.

Sec. 1. That the election district heretofore known as
district No. 1 in Allegany, shall be designated and known
as election district No. 1 in Garrett County.

Sec. 2. That the election district heretofore known as
district No. 2 in Allegany County shall be designated and
known as election district No. 2 in Garrett County.

Sec. 3. That the election district heretofore known as
district No. 3 in Allegany County shall be designated and
known as election district No. 3 in Garrett County.

Sec. 4. That those portions of election district desig-
nated as districts 4 and 16 in Allegany County now em-
braced within the lines of Garrett County shall constitute
a new election district which shall be designated and
known as election district No. 4.

1876 Ch. 7. Changes line between 2d and 5th election districts to run as
follows:

" Beginning at or near the summit of Winding Ridge,
where said ridge is crossed by Mason's and Dixon's Line,
then running with the summit of said ridge to Bear Creek,
there intersecting or joining the present dividing line of
said election districts, two and five, thence with the pres-
ent dividing line as now located.