The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-06-17
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AN ACT to create and establish a new
Election District in Prince Georges
County and to provide for the registra,
ton of the legal and qualified voters
therein.
Section /. Be it enacted by the Gener-
al Assembly Of Maryland that a new
Election District in Prince Georges
County, Maryland, be and the same is
hereby created and established by a divis-
ion of Election district No. -, now
known as Kent election district, said
new election district to be known as
Seat Pleasant Election District No. IS,
and the remaining part OF said election
district No. 13 to retain its present name
and number.
Section 2. And be it enacted that the
new Election district. No. Is, hereby
metes and bounds, beginning at a point
where the district of Columbia line in
t~ersects the Washington and Upper
Marlboro Turnpike, and thence run
ming with the said Washington and Up
per Marlboro Turnpike, to the Walkers
Mill road, thence with the Walkers
Mill road to Central Avenue, thence
with Central Avenue East to.a line on
said Avenue known as the Manor line,
thence with the said Manor line to a
point where said Manor line would in
~tersect the Carmody road if said road
were extended in a straight line from
it spresent terminus, and thence with the
Carmody road as extended to the ibin
branch, and thence with the Cabin
branch to tn e Beaver dam branch and
thence with the Beaver dam branch to
the Pennsylvania Railroad, thence with
the said railroad to the District of Col
umbia line and thence with the District
of Columbia line, to the point of begin
ming.
Section 3. And be it enacted that tho
rolling place of said Kent District, No.
Is, shall remain as heretofore at Bright
seat, and the polling place of the new
district, No. 1S, shall be at some place
to be selected by the Supervisors of
| Election in or near the village of CAPT.
toll Heights.
Section 4. And be it enacted that for
| the porpose of correcting the registries
of voters of district No. 10, and furnish
ing a register of voters for the new dis
| trict the Supervisors of Election of
Prince Georges county are hereby dir
| ected to furnish new duplicate registries
for the new district formed by this Act,
| and to direct and require their clerk to
make up from the registries. books of
| Kent district, as said books were origi-
nally made, Il registry of voters for the
new district created by this act, by stiik-
ing from the original registries the
names of all registered voters who have
| been registered in the original Kent dis
| trict and to iEscribe the same on the new
| registration book 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 a line
in red ink through the names thus er4s-
| ed or transferred, and under the head
ing Remarks On said old registries,
| shall enter the words Transferred" by
formation of a new district. And the
said Supervisors of Election are hereby
| required to deliver said new registries
| to the registers of voters to be appointed
for said new district, at the same time
| other registration books are delivered or
required by law to be delivered for tn e
| annual registration of voters. For his
services in erasing the names from the
Olu DOOhS anu luSCliUluS tLclu Ill LAC lcS-
istries 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 certil-
cate and order of the said Supervisors
of Election.
Section 5. And be it enacted that the
Supervisors of Election shall publish in
some newspaper of general circulation
in Prince Georges County at least two
weeks before the first session of the reg
listers of voters of said county a list of
all names erased from the old registries
and inscribed on the new, so that any
person whose name has been improperly
erased from the old reglstries and in
scribed in the new may have ample op-
portuGity to appear before the registers
of voters at their sessions and have the
proper correction made.
Section 6. And be it enacted that the
Governor of the State of Maryland and
the County Commissioners of said coun-
ty are authorized and empowered res
pectively to make appointment of JUS
tices of the Peace and Constables for
said new election district as are now au-
thorized by law for the other election
districts Of Prince Georges County.
Section 7. And be it enacted that
this Act shall take effect from the date
OF its passage.
Approved April II. 1910.