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Penn and his followers to the Delaware watershed. The " Lower Conn-
ties " had, however, but recently separated themselves into a distinct polit-
ical unit and were by no means inclined to allow Kent County to exercise
authority over the disputed territory. The limits of the jurisdiction of
Kent County were thus in reality not very different from those of to-day.
The eastern boundary was defined by the decree of the Lord High
Chancellor of England in 1750 when he settled the limits between
Maryland and the Delaware counties of Pennsylvania. This line was
finally run and marked by Mason and Dixon about fifteen years later.
It was described as a line drawn from the Middle Point of the Eastern
Shore tangent to a circle of twelve miles radius drawn about New
Castle, Delaware.

KENT COUNTY ELECTION DISTRICTS.

1798  Ch. 115. County divided into 3 election districts.

1799  Ch. 48. Confirms Acts of 1798 Ch. 115.

1799 Ch. 50. Commission appointed to divide county into 3 election dis-
tricts.

1813 Ch. 157. Polling place of the 1st election district to be at a place
selected by the judges.

1860 Ch. 21. Commissioners appointed to divide Kent County into 4 or 5
election districts as seems best.

1878 Ch. 220. Polling place of the 3d election district changed from " Worten
Heights" or " Hanesville " to Smithville.

1884 Ch. 452. Establishes voting precincts in the 4th election district as
follows:

" Beginning at the mouth of Radcliffe creek, and running
thence with said creek and the run or stream from the
mill-pond of the Chestertown Straw Board Company, to
where the said run or stream intersects the centre of the
public road leading from Chestertown to Fairlee, at or
near the said mills; thence by and with the aforesaid pub-
lic road to Harrisburg to Fannell's branch, to school-house
number four, to where the said road intersects the stream
or run, which constitutes a part of the division line be-
tween the fourth and fifth election districts, and all that
part of said Chestertown district number four, lying north
and east of said division line as above indicated shall be
known as " Precinct Number One" ....... and all that
part of the Chestertown district number four lying south
and west of the aforesaid division line, shall be known as
" Precinct Number Two."