The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-05-27
CHAPTER 10.

AN ACT to lay out and establish new
Election district in Prince Georges
cou ity. nIt of portions of district No.
3. or Marlboro Election district, and
Election district No. E, or Spaldin.s
Election district, to be called Election
SECTION I. Be it enacted BY the General
4ssemdH of Maryland, That new Election
district be laid out and esta blished out of
portions of Election district No. ;, or
Marlboro Election district, and Election
district No. 6, or Spaldings Election
district, OF Prince Georges county, the
said new district to be known and called
by the name of Election district No. Is,
or Mellwood district
Sec. ?. And be it Enacted That The
boundaries of said Election district No.
IS, or Mellwood district, shall e as fol-
lows: Beginning at a point on the rold
leading from Upper Marlboro to Groom
where the corporate limits of Upper
Marlboro cross said road, it being near
the Rectory of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in Upper Marlboro and running
with said road until it reaches the
boundary line of Nottingham district, or
Election district No. d, thence with the
present line separating Election dis tr.ct
No. 3, or Marlboro district from Elec.
ton No. 4, or Nottingham district, thence
with the boundary line separating Elec-
ton district No. g. or Marlboro district
from Election district No. II, or Brandy
wine district, to the line separating said
Election district No. 3, from Election
district No. 9, or Surratts district, thence
with the line separating the two last
mentioned districts, to Spaldings district
line, near the storehouse Of Enos F.
Humphrey, thence with the road from
Washington to Marlboro, formerly a
turnpike, to point on said road where
road turns off leading to Camp So, ings,
said point .elng little west of the pre-
sent residence of George w. Richardson,
thence in a straight line northwardly to
A. B. Sansbury's store, thence with the
public road in front of said store, which
leads from Forestville to William H.
Shutters residence, leaving said store in
Spaldlngs district eastwardly, to the
Marlboro district line at the intersection
OF the last mentioned road and the
road which leads to the County Aims
House, thence with the line separating
Marlboro and Spaldirgs districts to the
line OF Election district No. Is, or Kent
district, thence with the line separ-
ating Marlboro and Kent districts
to road which intersects said
heirs of the late William !. Bowie and
Corydore Covile, thence with said road
through the farm of jain F. McGregor
past the farms Of Elisha E. Berry, Iohn
H. Traband and others, until it reache,
the bridge on the road from Marlboro
to Washington near the residence #
George G. Merrick, thence with corpor-
ate limits of Upper Marlboro, first in a
westwardly and then in d southernly
direction to the beginning, leaving all of
the Town of Upper Marlboro in the
I'd RI
sc, s. And be it Enacted, That the
place oi holding election in said Election
district No. IS, or MelIwood district, shall
be at or near the point on the roa lead
ing from Marlboro to Washington, where
there WAS formerly toll-gate and which
is commonly called "Me,lwool."
Src. 4. And be it Enacted, That the
County Commissioners and Election
Supervisors of Prince Georges county
are hereby directed to make all
necessary provisions for voting in said
Election district NJ. IS, OF "Mellwood'
district DIS they are now required by
law for other Election districts il said
county.
Sec; s. And be it Enacted, That there
shall be new general registration of
all the legal voters in said Election dis
trct No. Is, or "MelIwool district" in
the same way and under the same rules
and provisions in all respects as provid-
ed by Chapter 2o2 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of MARYLAND, passed
at the Session of 1895. for the general re-
glstratlon OF voters in the counties of the
State.
Sec. E. And be it Enacted. That the
Governor of the State of Maryland and
the County Commissioners of Prince
George bounty are hereby authorized
ana empowered to make the same ap-
polntmentS OF Justices of the Peace, CON
stables an other officers, for said Elec-
t'on uistflct NJ. Is, OF "Mellw ,ol dis
tIict, as are now made for the other
Election districts of Prince Georges
county.
Sec. I. AMI be it Enacted, That this
act shall take effect from the date of its
passage.
Approved, April Ill 1875.
LLOYD LOWNDES, Governor.
JOHN WRIT RANDALL,
President of the Senate.
LOUIS SCHAEFER,
Speaker of the House of d .legates
Office of the Secretary of the Senate.
/ Hereby Certify, That the aforegoins
Is true copy of Act of the General
Assembly of Maryland, passed at the
January Session, 1885
MARTIN NJ HIGGINS.
Secretary of the Senate.
May -, IS9S-3w
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