The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1906-06-22
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intersects the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad; thence in southerly direc-
tion with the line of said railroad to
point directly opposite to the electric
power house at Riverdale and from
said Baltimore and Ohio railroad, at
said point, in a southeasterly direction
to gate on the property of Charles
A. Machen, near the gravel hill. on
the "Edmonston road;" thence south
erly with said "Edmonston road" to
the northern corporate limits of Blad-
ensburg; thence westerly with said
corporate limits to point where the
Eastern branch. .intersects the North.
west branch; thence with the said
Northwest branch to a point where
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
crosses said Northwest branch; the
place of beginning.
SECTION 3. And be in enacted, that
the following of Hyattsville district
shall be and remain as heretofore in
Hyattsville, and the polling place of
Bladensburg district shall be as here
tofore, and that the polling place of
Chillum district or district No. IT
shall be at Brentwood, at some place
to be selected and designated by the
supervisors of election for Prince
Georges county.
SECTION 4. And be it enacted, that
for the purposes of correcting the
Registries Of voters for districts No. 2,
No. l6 and No. IT, it is hereby made
the duty of the supervisors Of election
of Prince Georges county to furnish
new duplicate registries for the new
district formed by this act and to dir
ect and require their clerk to make up
from the registries of Hyattsville dis
trict and Bladensburg district as said
books were originally made and in
scribed, a registry of voters for the
new district by this act created and
established by striking from the said
original registries the names of all
registered voters who have been reg
istered in the two said districts as for
merly created and established, and to
inscribe the same on the new registra-
tion books of the new district hereby
created and established. And when
said clerk to said supervisors shall
have erased from the old and inscribed
in the new books the names of the
voters who are entitled to registration
only in the said new district, in all
cases of erasure the said clerk shall
draw line in red ink through the
names thus erased or transferred and
under the heading Remarks" on said
old registries shall enter the words
"Transferred by formation of new
district" And the said supervisors
of elections are hereby required to de-
liver said new registries to the regis
ters of voters to be appointed for said
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other registration books are delivered
or required by law to be delivered for
the annual registration of voters. For
his services in erasing the names from
the old books and inscribing them in
the registries Of the new district the
said clerk shall receive the sum of
Fifty dollars to be paid by the county
commissioners of Prince Georges
county on the certificate and order of
the said supervisors of elections.
SECTION 5. And be it enacted, that
the said supervisors of elections shall
publish in some newspapers of general
circulation in Prince Georges county,
at least two weeks before the first ses.
sion of the registers of voters of Prince
Georges county, list of all names
erased from the old registries and in
scribed on the new, so that any per-
son v, hose name has been improperly
erased from the old registries and in.
scribed in the new, may have ample
opportunity to appear before the reg.
listers of voters at their sessions and
have the proper corrections made.
! SECTION 6. And be it enacted, that
the Governor of the State of Mary
land, and the county commissioners of
Prince Georges county, are authoriz-
ed and empowered, respectively, to
make appointments of justices of the
peace and constables for said new
election district as are now authorized
by law, for the other election districts
of Prince Georges county.
SECTION I. And be in enacted, that
this act shall take effect from the date
of its passage.
Approved April 4th, 1905.
HON. EDWIN WAKEFIELD,
Governor.
HON. CARVILLE D. BENSON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
HON. JOSEPH B. SETH,