LAWS OF MARYLAND
Special Session
March 11, 1964

MARYLAND, Sct:

At a Special Session of the General Assembly of Maryland, begun
and held in the City of Annapolis, on the eleventh day of
March, 1964, the Honorable J. Millard Tawes, being Governor
of the State, the following laws were enacted, to wit:

CHAPTER 1
(House Bill 28)

AN ACT to repeal Section 474 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Baltimore City (1949 Edition), being Article 4 of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws of Maryland, title "Baltimore City," subtitle "Coun-
cilmanic and Legislative Districts" and to enact a new Section 474
in lieu thereof to stand in the place of the section so repealed and
to be under the new subtitle "Legislative Districts" revising the
boundaries of the several Legislative Districts of Baltimore City,
providing for the effect of this Act and relating generally to the
Legislative Districts of Baltimore City, and to the members of
the General Assembly therefrom.

Whereas, the Constitution of Maryland, Article II, Section 4,
provides that:

The General Assembly shall have the power to provide by law,
from time to time, for altering and changing the boundaries of the
existing Legislative Districts of the City of Baltimore, so as to make
them as near as may be of equal population; but said district shall
always consist of contiguous territory; now, therefore

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 474 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title
"Baltimore City," subtitle "Councilmanic and Legislative Districts,"
be and it is hereby repealed, and that new Section 474 be and it is
hereby enacted in lieu thereof, to stand in the place of the section
so repealed, and to be under the new subtitle "Legislative Districts"
and to read as follows:

Legislative Districts
474.

(a) All references in this Section to the several Wards and Pre-
cincts of Baltimore City are to the respective Wards and Precincts
as individually constituted on January 1, 1964.

Explanation: [Brackets] indicate matter deleted.

Italics indicate matter added to existing text.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.