236 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. 1.

1868, c. 103 authorizes and empowers the commissioners of Allegany county to
levy such sum or sums of money as they deem necessary in their judgment, to aid
in the construction of a bridge across the Potomac river at Westernport, in Allegany
county.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

1868, c. 84 repeals and re-enacts section 18 as follows:

1868, c. 94. Clerk's com- pensation.

18. He, (the clerk of the county commissioners,) shall be entitled to such compensation as shall be fixed by the county commissioners not exceeding six hun- dred dollars. In force and approved March 3, 1868. CITY OF CUMBERLAND.

1868, c. 110 repeals section 23 as amended by 1864, c. 121 [Sup. 319] and re-enacts
the same as follows:

1868, c. 110. Survey and bounds. Proviso.

23. The survey made under the authority of the mayor and city councilmen of the city of Cumberland, and entered upon the record of their proceedings, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for Allegany county, shall constitute the bounds and limits of said city, but the mayor and councilmen of said city shall have full power and authority to extend the bounds and .limits thereof not exceeding one mile from the present limits whenever they shall deem expedient, and shall, whenever they extend the same, record the survey of every such extension among their own proceedings and among the land records of said Allegany county; provided, however, that for all sani- tary and police purposes the mayor and city council- men of said city shall have and exercise full authority and control for one-half mile in every direction beyond the bounds and limits of said city. In force and approved March 7, 1868.