1146 ARTICLE 4.

1900, ch. 739.

656C. Nothing in this Act shall in any way affect Section 470, Article
27, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), entitled "Re-
ceiving Stolen Goods, Money or Securities."

LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS.
WARDS.

1898. ch. 10.

656D. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of Elections
of Baltimore City to proceed forthwith to divide and lay off the City of
Baltimore into twenty-four wards, to be each as regular and compact
in form as may be practicable, and having according to the police census

taken in December, 1897, as nearly as may reasonably be practicable,
equal population, and in such manner that no ward shall exceed or fall
short by more than fifteen per cent, of the number of inhabitants it would
contain if it was so laid off as to include within its boundaries precisely

one-twenty-fourth of the aggregate population of the city, and the said
Board of Supervisors shall number the said wards from one to twenty-
four consecutively.

1898, ch. 10.

656E. When the said twenty-four wards are so laid out by the said
Board of Supervisors of Elections of the City of Baltimore, as herein-
before directed, it shall be the duty of the said board to make or cause to
be made in a proper book, a careful description of the boundaries of each
of the said wards, so numbered as aforesaid, under its proper number,
and after making a careful and exact copy of the same in another proper
book, and after verifying the said original book and the said copy by their
signatures, to deposit the original book in the clerk's office of the Superior
Court of Baltimore City, and it shall be the duty of the said clerk of the
said court, to record the same among the Land Records of his office, and
a copy of the description or descriptions contained in the said record of
the boundaries of any one or more wards therein mentioned and described,
shall be evidence of the boundaries of such ward or wards so laid out as
aforesaid, and the copy of said original book so made and so verified, as
aforesaid, by the said Board of Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore
City shall always be retained in the office of the said board among the
Records of the said board.

1898, ch. 10.

656F. When said book containing the said descriptions of the said
wards of the City of Baltimore so laid out as aforesaid, has been de-
posited for record in the clerk's office of the Superior Court of Baltimore
City, then the said wards, as in said book described, and laid, shall there-
after be deemed to be the several wards of Baltimore City.