Board of Supervisors of Election for Wicomico County v. Todd

Jones, ].,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Act of Assembly of 1896, ch. 195, a public local law of Wicomico County, enacted in its first section “that whenever such of the registered qualified voters of Wicomico County, or of any election district, city or town thereof, as constitute one-half of all the votes cast for all of the candidates for Governor at the last election in said county, or in an election district, city or town thereof, shall petition the Circuit Court for said county for the submission, at the next regular congressional election held in said county of the question of…