Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-03-15
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS
PASSED BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND,
At the January Session, 1878.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER 20.

CHAPTER %.
AN ACT to create a new Election District in
Montgomery county, to be known as Darnes-
town District Number Six, or the Sixth
Election District of Montgomery county.
SECTION /. BE 1t enacted By the General As
sembly of maryland, That u new Election
District reformed and laid out of portions of the
Third and Fourth Election Districts of Montgo-
merry county, to be known as Darnestown Dis
trict, No. 6, or the Sixth Election District of
Montgomery county, whose metes and bounds
shall be as follows:
Beginning al the crossing of the Little Sem
eca Greek by the county road leading from
Gaithersburg to GAINESVILLE and running
down and with said Little Seneca Greek until
it empties into Great Seneca Creek: then
down and with said Great Seneca Greek until
it empties into the Potomac river; then down
and with said Potomac river to the mouth of
Watts Branch then up and with said Watts
Branch to the mouth of Piney Branch then
up and with said Piney Branch until tt same
is crossed by the public road near the resi-
dence of Mrs. Upton West; and then down
and with said public road in the direction Of
Darnestown until the same intersects the road
known as DuFiefs Mill road then up and
with said road as it is described in the plat
recorded in Liber ]. 6. H., Number seven,
folio six hundred and three, of the Land Re-
cords of sid Montgomery county, until the
same intersects the Gaithersburg and Barnes
vile road near Gaithersburg then with said
Gaithersburg and GAINESVILLE road 10 the di-
rection of GAINESVILLE to the place of Begin
ming, to include Harriss' and Watkins Islands
in the Potomac river
SEC 2. And be 1t enacted, That the voting
place or polls of said District shall be at OAR
nestown.
Sec 8. And be it enacted, That the Governor
of Maryland and the County Commissioners of
Montgomery county be, and are respectively
hereby authorized aid directed to appoint
for said new District two Justices Of the
Peace, two Constables and one Registration
officer for the registration of voters and all
other oficers'as they may now be authorized
by law to appoint for other Election Dis
tricts in Montgomery county, and also TO do
whatever else within the scope of their author
rity may be necessary to carry cut the OBJ
jects of this Act.
SEC. a. And be it enacted, That the Regis,ra-
ton officer Of said new District shall make
out and prepare new lists of voters for said Dis
trict in the manner now prescribed for by law,
which said lists shall be returned to the
office Of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
said county, and shall be used for the first
time in the November election of eighteen
hundred and seventy-eeht
SEC 5. And be IL enacted That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is
true copy OF an act passed by the General AS
sembly Of Maryland at its January Session,
1873.
Approved February "a, 1878
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
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