JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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judges of said election, and said judges shall make a

return under oath of such votes to the commissioners

of said town, which returns shall be recorded in the

ordinance book of said town, and if it shall appear

that a majority of said votes shall have been cast

" for disposing of lot,'' then the Board of Commis-

sioners of Oxford, or a majority of them, may exercise

May exercise.

the authority granted in section one of this act, but

if it shall appear that a majority of said votes were

cast "against disposing of lot," then this act shall

be of no effect.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1876.

CHAPTER 283.

AN ACT to divide the fourth election district of

St. Mary's county, and to create an additional

election district in said county, to be styled the

seventh election district.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That so much of the fourth election dis-

trict of St. Mary's county as is included within the

following lines, shall hereafter be known as the

Seventh elec-
tion district.

seventh election district, that is to say : beginning at

the crossing of St. Clement's Bay Run, by the stage

road, and running thence with said stage road to-

wards Chaptico, until it reaches the north-east end

or corner of "Neales' Lot," on said stage road,

thence by a direct line to the head waters of Bram-

bly Creek, thence by the waters of the Wicomico

and Potomac. Rivers and St. Clement's Bay to the

beginning, including the several islands contiguous

to the last described waters.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That so much of the fourth

election district as is not included within the afore-

Fourth elec-
tion district.

said lines, shall still continue to be known as the