1834.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP 187.

holding the election in said district, and that a change in
the location of part of said distinct, would greatly promote
their convenience and the public good, the prayer of the
petitioners appearing reasonable and just, — Therefore

Change line

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
a part of the Fifth Election District of Anne Arundel county
be added to the sixth district, according to the following
lines —beginning at the first beginning line of the fifth and
sixth election districts, at the river which divides Anne
Arundel and Montgomery counties, near to Triadelphia
Factory, and running down with and binding on said river,
until it gets to a large branch, which empties into said river
below Benjamin Scrivener's farm, and then running up and
binding on said big Branch, until it reaches a farm on
which Samuel Straughan now lives, and thence with a
straight line until it strikes a Branch on the west
Side of the said house, and then up said Branch until it in
tersects the Roxbury Mill Road, leading to Porter's tavern,
where it will intersect the divisional hue between the fifth
and sixth election districts, and it shall and may be lawful
for all voters now residing, or may hereafter reside, within
the present lines of the fifth district, and within the limits
of the aforesaid lines, as above directed to be run, to vote
at the place of holding elections in the sixth electron dis-
trict, at all future elections.

CHAPTER 187

Passed Mar. 12, 1835

An act to for the benefit of Richard Webb, Samuel Bar
rett, Moses Coker and Charles Williams, free persons of
color, of Dorchester, Harford, Caroline, and Talbot
Counties

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
that Richard Webb, of Dorchester county, Samuel Barrett,
of Talbot county, Moses Coker, of Caroline county, and
Charles Williams, of Harford county, free persons of color,
have, by their industry, economy, and good conduct, ac-
quired some real estate in said counties, which they are de-
sirous of transmitting to their children, which, under the
existing laws of this State, they are unable to do, — There-