CHARLES RIDGELY (OF HAMPT.) ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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they experience great inconvenience for want of a sixth election
district in said county, and praying an alteration in the second,
third, and filth districts, so as to admit a sixth district between;
and the prayer of the petitioners appearing reasonable, There-
fore,
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 act of seventeen hundred and ninety-eight,
which directs that Prince George's county shall be divided and
laid off into five separate districts, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed.
2. And be it enacted, That Prince George's county shall be di-
vided into six separate districts, and that the additional district
shall be laid off adjoining and between the second, third, and fifth
districts.
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 herein contained, shall constitute and be consider-
ed a part of said constitution and form of government, to ail in-
tents and purposes, any thing therein contained to the contrary
notwithstanding.

Dec. Ses. 1816.

Part of the con-
stitution re-
pealed.

P. George's
to be divided
into 6 districts.

If confirmed by
the next Gene-
ral Assembly
to be part of
the constituti-
on.

CHAPTER 27.

An act to alter and change the name of Cecil Cross Roads,
in Cecil County, to Cecilton.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the village in Cecil county, state of Maryland, now called
and known by the name of Cecil Cross Roads, shall hereafter be
called and known by the name of Cecilton.

Passed Dec. 31

Name changed
to Cecilton.

CHAPTER 28.

An Additional Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to
straighten and amend the several Public Roads in, se-
veral Counties, and for other purposes therein men-
tioned.
Whereas it is represented to this general assembly, by Jan-
naro S. Farree and Benjamin Gray, of Montgomery county, that
the public road leading from George-Town, through Rockville in
Montgomery county, to Frederick-Town, passes through several
lots of ground in the said town of Rockville, to the great injury
of the holders of said lots; they therefore pray that the said
road may be altered and continued through Washington-street
to the north end thereof, and from thence to intersect the present
road, north of the said town of Rockville, by a line drawn north
35 degrees west; and the prayer of the petitioners being rea-
sonable, Therefore,
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Jesse Leach, Solomon Holland and Thomas P. Wilson, be
and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to lay off, and
cause to be surveyed, the said road, from the north-east corner
of lot No. 28, on Washington-street, in the said town of Rock-

Passed Dec. 31
Preamble.

Commissioners
appointed to
lay off and sur-
vey a road.