SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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county, if they shall deem it right, and so long as they see cause, for
the support and maintenance of Mary Nevitt, a sum not exceeding
thirty dollars; and the same when collected by the collector of taxes
for said county, be paid Mary Nevitt, or her order.

Dec. Ses. 1821.

CHAPTER 37.

A. supplement to an act entitled, An act to authorise the Levy Court
of Baltimore county, to levy a sum of money for completing the
Bridge over the Great Falls of Gun-powder, at Meredith's Ford, in
said county.

Passed Jan. 9,

1822.

Be it enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Levy Court of Baltimore county, be, and they are hereby au-
thorised and empowered, to assess, and levy on the assessable pro-
perty of said counts', at their next levy, a sum of money not exceed-
ing four hundred and fifty dollars, to complete the bridge over the
Great Falls of Gun-powder, at Meredith's Ford, and when so levied
and collected, to be paid over to the commissioners named in the
original law to which this is a supplement, for the purpose of com-

$450 may be
levied.

pleting said bridge; Provided however, That the said court be, and
they are hereby authorised to suspend all or any proceedings under
this act, relating to the bridge over the Great Falls of Gun-powder,
at Meredith's Ford, if they shall be of opinion that it is expedient
so to do.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 38.

An act to repeal all such parts of the constitution and form of govern-
ment as relates to the division of Baltimore county, into seven sepa-
rate election districts, and for other purposes.
Sec. 1. BE it Enacted By the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all such parts of the constitution, and form of government,
whereby Baltimore county hath been divided and laid off into seven
separate election districts, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Passed Jan. 9,

1822

Repeal.

2. And be it enacted, That for district number one, Dr. Thomas
Johnson and George Tunanus [Timanus;] for number two, Nathaniel
Childs and George Harryman; for number three, John Kerlinger
and Michael Armacost; for number four, John Buck, (of Benja-
min,) and John Murray; for number five, Thomas Pierce and Abra-
ham Cole, Jr; for number six, John T. Randall and Robert Hud-
son; and for number seven, John T. H. Worthington and James
Gill, be, and they are hereby appointed and authorise, or a majority
of them, or a majority of the survivors of them, commissioners to
lay of, and divide a new, all that part of Baltimore county, without
the limits of Baltimore city, not exceeding twelve separate election
districts, carefully making the several districts as nearly equal as
possible, having regard to population, extent, and the convenience
of the voters of each said several districts; and each election district
shall be numbered by said commissioners, and known thereafter by
such number; and also to make choice of a place in each district,
so layed off anew, at which the elections shall be held, as nearly
central as practicable, having regard to the circumstances aforesaid,
land the accommodation of persons attendant upon such elections.
And the said commissioner shall, on or before the fifteenth day of
July, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, deliver to the clerk of
Baltimore county court, a description in writing, under their hands

Commission-
ers—their du-
ties.