COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

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kinds of estates, property, and effects, and of doing all and

every such act or acts, thing or things, device or devices, need-

ful or necessary to be done to the exercise of all powers which

are or shall be vested in them by this act, or by any other act

of assembly, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purpo*

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ses, as corporate bodies may or can lawfully and rightfully do.

SEC. 4. And be if enacted, That when, and as soon as the

Powers of

commissioners to be elected, or appointed as aforesaid, shall

levy court
and com-

have taken and subscribed the oath or affirmation herein before

missioners

described, all the powers, rights, and privileges, lawfully exer-

of tax con-
ferred.

cised by, and all property, estate, and effects, vested in the jus-

tices of the levy court of Allegany county, shall be transferred

to, and vested in, the commissioners of Allegany county, who,

or any six of them, shall thereafter exercise all the said powers,

rights, and privileges, and shall perform all the duties required

to be performed by the said justices of the levy court aforesaid;

and no appointment of justices of the levy court for Allegany

county shall thereafter be made : and all the powers lawfully

exercised by, or vested in, the commissioners of the tax for

Allegany county, and all the duties required by law to be per-

formed by them, shall be vested in, and exercised and performed

by, the said commissioners of Allegany county, after they shall

become qualified as aforesaid ; and no appointment of commis-

sioners of the tax for Allegany county shall thereafter be made.

SEC. 5. And be it enactedy That the commissioners of Alle-

Clerk.

gany county shall, at their annual meetings, appoint a well

qualified, fit, and proper person, a resident of said county, to

act and serve as clerk to the said commissioners, who shall

transact all the business, and discharge all the duties, now ap-

pertaining to the several and respective offices of clerk of the

levy court and commissioners of the tax, in the same manner

as the clerk of Allegany county court, and the clerk of the com-

missioners of the tax for said county, are now by law autho-

rized and required to transact the same; and the person so

appointed shall, before he enters on the duties of his office,

execute a bond to the state of Maryland, to be approved of by

the said commissioners in the penalty of one thousand dollars,

conditioned for the true and faithful performance of the several

and respective duties imposed by this act, which bond shall be

recorded in the clerk's office of the county court of said county;

and a copy thereof, under the seal of said court, shall be as

sufficient evidence as the original ; and the said clerk, when

appointed, shall also take and subscribe the following oath or

affirmation, (as the case may be,) to wit :'I A. B. do swear (or

affirm) that, as clerk to the commissioners of Allegany county,

I will honestly and faithfully, to the best of my skill and judg-

ment, execute the duties of said office, without favour, affec-