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CHAPTER 150.
An act to alter, change and repeal, all such parts of the
Constitution and Form of Government of this State, as
relate to the Division of Washington County into Elec-
tion Districts.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all that part of the constitution and form of government, made such
by the acts of seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, and seventeen
hundred and ninety-nine, which directs that Washington county
shall be divided and laid off into live separate districts, be and
the same is hereby repealed.
2. And be it enacted, That Washington county shall be divided
into six separate districts, and that the additional district shall be
taken from the third election district, and laid off by the follow-
ing; boundaries, and when so laid off shall be called and known
by the name of the sixth election district of Washington county,
viz. Beginning on the east side of Antietam Creek, at Harry's
Mill, and running with said creek to the Pennsylvania line, then
with said line to the Frederick county line, and with that line to
Orr's Gap, on the old road leading from Hager's-Town to Fre-
derick, and then with that road to the place of beginning; the
election for said district to be held at Cave-Town.
3. And be it enacted, That if this act shall be confirmed by the
general assembly of Maryland, after the next election of dele-
gates, in the first session after such new election, as the consti-
tution and form of government directs, in such case, this act, and
the alterations of the constitution therein contained, shall consti-
tute and be valid as a part of the said constitution and form of
government, to all intents and purposes, any tiling therein con-
tained to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Passed Jan. 22
Part of the
constitution re-
pealed.
County to be
divided into
six districts.
If confirmed to
be part of the
constitution.
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CHAPTER 151.
An act for altering the times of holding the Court of Ap-
peals and of holding the Court for Talbot County.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of tins act, the court of appeals
shall be holden for the western shore, at the city of Annapolis,
on the second Monday in June, and on the first Monday in De-
cember, in each and every year, and that all proceedings already
issued, or which may hereafter be issued, and all appeals, writs
of error and proceedings, civil and criminal) returnable to, and
now depending and undetermined in the said court of appeals
held for the western shore, shall be returned and continued to
the said second Monday in June; and that from and after the
passage of this act, the court of appeals for the eastern shore of
Maryland, shall he holden on the first Monday in June, and
the last Monday in November, in each and every year, and that
all process already issued, or which may hereafter be issued, and
all appeals, writs of error and proceedings, civil and criminal,
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Passed Jan. 15
Time of meet-
ing of the court
of appeals.
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