COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

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erected and fitted up in the court-house of said county, a suita-

ble book-case, in which the books, papers and documents

belonging to the commissioners, may be safely deposited and

kept.

SEC. 10. And be if enacted, That each of the said commis-

Commis-

sioners shall be entitled to receive two dollars per day, for every
day that he shall necessarily attend to the duties of his office.

sioners'
compensa-
tion.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners

Authority

shall and may, at any time during each and every year, make,
complete, and close their levy, any law to the contrary notwith-

to levy,&c.
suits at law.

standing; and that all suits at law or in equity, which may be

pending at the time of the passage of this act, by or against the

justices of the levy court of said county, shall be carried on

and prosecuted to a final determination in like manner, and

have the same legal effect, either in favour of or against the

commissioners, provided for by this act, as if the said suit or

suits, had been instituted by or against the said commissioners.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That so much of any act or acts

Repeal.

of the general assembly, as may be contrary to, or inconsistent

. with, the provisions of this act, be, and the same is and are

hereby repealed.

NOTE.— The 4th sec. of this act transfers to the County Commissioners,

the authorities exercised by the Commissioners of the Tax. Their duties

are principally to be found in the act of 1812, ch. 191, entitled, 'an Act for

the valuation of real and personal property in the several counties of this

state.1 Allegany and Anne Arundel counties have since then had a re-

valuation of property. By 1817, ch. 142, a new assessment of property in

Baltimore county was provided for, and that assessment was to be made in

the manner prescribed by 1812, ch. 191,— the act of 1812, ch. 191, will be

therefore distributed to 'Baltimore County,' — which see.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to provide for electing Com-

missioners for Allegany County, and prescribing their powers and

duties, passed December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine,

chapter twenty-five.— 1831, ch. 72.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly, that the

Preamble.

act, entitled, an act to provide for electing commissioners for

Allegany county, and prescribing their powers and duties,

passed December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine,

chapter twenty-five, did not make a seal necessary, and it ap-

pearing just and proper that the commissioners should have a

seal; therefore*

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Seal.

the commissioners elected under the act, be authorized and

hereby directed to cause to be made and use a corporate seal,

and may alter the same at their pleasure, as may be necessary

to give validity to the acts of the said commissioners.

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