151. The fifth Congressional district shall be composed of St. Mary's county, Charles county, Calvert county, Prince George's county, Anne Arundel county, including the city of Annapolis, Howard county, the first and thirteenth election districts of Baltimore county, and the seventeenth ward of Baltimore city, and shall be entitled to choose one representative in the House of Representatives.

152. The sixth Congressional district shall be composed of Allegany county, Garrett county, Washington county, Frederick county and Montgomery county, and shall be entitled to choose one representative in the House of Representatives.

153. The judges of the election districts of Baltimore county forming part of the second Congressional district. shall make a return separate from that to be made by the judges of the remaining districts of said county, and the judges of the election precincts of Baltimore city composing the third Congressional district, and the judges of the election precincts of Baltimore city composing the fourth Congressional district shall, respectively, make separate returns, and separate returns shall in like manner be made by the judges of the election precincts in said city constituting a part of the second Congressional district, and also by the judges of the election precincts in said city constituting a part of the fifth Congressional district.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That as soon as may be after the passage of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Governor to appoint three Supervisors of Elections for each of the counties of this State and for the city of Baltimore, respectively, who shall discharge all the duties imposed by the foregoing provisions of this Act upon the Supervisors of Elections of said counties and city respectively. They shall take the same oath thereby required, and shall have all the powers thereby conferred on such Supervisors, and shall hold office until their successors shall have been elected on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, or thereafter appointed, and shall have qualified as hereinbefore provided. Not more than two of the said Supervisors

of Elections to be so appointed by the Governor for any one county, or for the city of Baltimore, shall belong to the same political party, and it shall be the duty of the Governor, before appointing any of them, to request the permanent bodies of highest authority representing the two principal political parties of the State in each of the said counties and in the city of Baltimore, to designate candidates for such Supervisors, and if the Governor shall see fit to appoint any person or persons not so designated by either the one or the other of said political parties, he shall in every such case file with the Secretary of State a written statement of his reasons for such action. All the provisions in regard to the Supervisors of Elections to be elected under the first section of this Act shall be equally applicable to all the Supervisors to be appointed under this section.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after the date of its passage, and that all public general laws or public local laws or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed; provided, that every offense which has been or shall have been wholly or partly committed against any of said public general or public local laws or parts thereof, before this Act goes into operation, shall be dealt with, inquired into, tried, determined and punished, and any penalty in respect to any such offense shall be imposed or inflicted, and any fine shall be imposed, enforced or recovered in the same manner as if the said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and no case pending shall abate by reason of such repeal, and every act duly done and every warrant or other instrument duly issued, made or granted before this Act comes into operation shall continue and be of the same force and effect as if the said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and provided, also, that any right, liability, privileges and protection in respect to any matter or thing committed or done before this Act comes into operation, shall continue and be of the same force and effect as if the said laws or parts thereof

had not been repealed; and every action, prosecution or other proceeding which shall have been commenced before this Act comes into operation, or shall thereafter be commenced in respect to any such matter or thing done before this Act comes into operation, may be prosecuted, continued and defended in the same manner as if the said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and provided, also, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal any provision of the existing laws applicable to the city of Baltimore for the prevention of the sale or dispensing of any liquor, or for the preservation of peace and order therein on any election day.