Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-03-01
PUBLIC LOCAL LAWS
PASSED BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF maryland,
At the January Session, 1873.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
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AN ACT to create new Election District in
Montgomery county, to be known as barnes
town District, Number Six, or the Sixth
Election District of Montgomery couniy.
SECTION l. BE 1t enacted by the General As
Sembiy Of maryland, That new Election
District reformed and laid out of portions Of the
Third and Fourth Election Districts of AIontgo-
merry county, to be known as Jamestown Dis
trict, No. 6, or the Sixth Election District of
Montgomery county, whose metesand bounds
shall be as follows:
Beginning al the crossing of the Little Sem
eca Greek by the county road leading from
Gaithersourg to gainesville and running
down and with said Little Seneca Greek until
it empties into Great Seneca Greek: then
down and with said Great Seneca Creek until
it emptes into the Potomac river; then down
and with said Potomac river to the mouth of
Watts Branch thep up aud with said Watts
Branch to the mouth Of Piney Branch then
up and with said Piney Branch until IT, e 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 J G. H.. Number seven,
folio six hundred and three, of the Land Re-
cords of S id Montgomery county until the
same intersects the Gaithersburg and Barnes
vile road near Gailhersburg ; then with said
Gaihersburg and Barnesville road in 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 IL enacted, That the voting
place or polls of said District shall be at BAR
nestown.
SEC 3. And be IL enacted, That The Governor
of Maryland and the County Commissioners of
Montgomery county be, and are respectively
hereby authorized aud directed to appoint
for said new District two Justices OF the
Peace, two Constables and one Registration
oiilcer for The registration of voters, and all
other oihcers'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 he necessary to carry cut the Oh
jects of this Act.
SEC. 4. ARd be ii enacted, That the Regis;ra-
ton officer Of said new District shall make
out andprepare new lists Of voters for said Dis
trlct 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-eight.
SEC 5. And be ii enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date ofits passage
We hereby certify that the aforegoing is a
true copy Of an act passed By the General As
sembly of Maryland at its January Session,
1873.
Approved February IA, 1878
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates
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