Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-06-21
PUBLIC LOCAL LAW
PASSED BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND,
At the January Session, 1878.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER III.

AN ACT to create new election district in
Montgomery county, 10 be known as Me-
| chanicsville district, number eight, or the
eighth election district of Montgomery
county.
SECTION /. Be IL enacted By the General As
sembly of Maryland, That new election dis
trict be formed and laid out in Montgomery
county, composed of portions of the first and
| fifth election districts of said county, to be
known as Mechanicsville district, number
eight or the eighth election district of Mont
gomery county, whose metes and bounds
shall be as follows: Beginning at Browns
bridge, on the PntuXent river, and following
the county road known as the limekiln road
to its crossing of Ashton and Colesvile turn
pike, then with the continuation Of said lime
kiln road to Hollands Corner, then with the
Norwood branch of the Union turnpike to the
crossing at Hollands branch, then continu-
ing with said limekiln road to the Brookeville
and Washington turnpike, then with said
pike to the Baltimore an0 Rockville road,
thence with said Baltimore and Rockville road
to the bridge crossing Rock creek, then fol-
lowing up aud with the eastern branch Of
Rock creek to the bridge crossing said creek
at William E. Muncaster's mill, then with
the county road leading to the village OF
Redland to where the said road crosses the
western branch of Rock creek, at what was
formerly known as Ricketts, ford, then follow
ing up and with said western branch of Rock
creek to where it crosses the road leading
from Rockville to Unity, near the farm OF
Walter NJ. Talbot, then following said road
to its intersection with the road leading from
Mechanicsville TO Laytonsville, near the resi-
deuce of Fletcher r. Veitch, then following
the road leading from Laytonsvile 10 Brooke
vile to the crossing of the public road near
The Catholic church and the village OF Mount
Zion, then with said public road 10 Rawlings
river, near the residence OF Thomas d. Gather,
then down Rawlings river 10 Westminster
road, near Allen Bowie Davis mill, then with
the said Wesmi nster road to the intersection
of the road leading to Triadelpha north Of
the store of Frederick o. GATHER then with
said road to the bridge across the PauxueDt
river at the village OF TriadeIphia, then down
and with said Patuxent river to Brown
bridge, the place OF beginning.
SEC. 2. And be enacted, That the voting
place or polls in said district shall be held al
Mechanicsvlle.
Sec. 3. And be il enacted, That the Gov
ernor Of Maryland and County Commissioners
of Montgomery county be and they are re-
spectively authorized and directed TO appoint
for said new district two justices OF the
peace TWO CONSTITUTES, one registration OfllcSr,
for the registration Of voters, and all other
officers as they may now be authorized 10y
law to appoint for other election districts of
Montgomery county, and also to do whatever
else within the scope of their authority may
be nectssary 10 carry out the objects Of this
act.
SEC 4. And be IL enacted, That the regis
tration officer for said new district shall make
out and prepare new lists of voters for said
new districts in the manner now prescribed
by law, which said new lists shall he 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-eight.
SEC 5. And be IL enactea, That this act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
We do hereby certify that the aforeguing
is a correct copy of an act of the General AS
sembly of Maryland passed at the January
session, 1878.
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
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