COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

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

Authority

the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate,

in case of
tie.

be authorized to fill the vacancy occasioned by the tie vote re-

ferred to in the above preamble;by appointing one of the two,

who were candidates at the late October election, in the same

manner as is provided for the filling vacancies in the act, to

which this is a supplement; and that in all cases hereafter,

In future

where there shall be £ tie between two or more candidates for

cases.

the office of county commissioners in said county, the sheriff

of said county, as soon as such tie is ascertained to exist, shall

issue his proclamation commanding a new election in such dis-

trict, giving the usual notice required by law, which election

shall be held in all respects, according to the provisions of the

election laws of this state.

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

missioners for Allegany County, and prescribing their powers and duties,

passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, chapter

twenty-five.— 1838, ch. 148.

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

Publication

the county commissioners of Allegany county, be, and they are

directed.

hereby directed to publish annually, in two newspapers pub-

lished in said county, an exhibit of the receipts and expendi-

tures of said county, naming the amount, and from what

sources received, the sum, or sums levied, the object, or work,

for which appropriations have or may be made, the amount ex-

pended on each, and the person receiving the same, any thing

in the act to which this is a supplement, to (he contrary not-

withstanding.

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

missioners for Allfgany County, and prescribing their duties and powers,

passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-,nine, chapter

twenty-five —1838, ch. 316.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

Case of

That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty

vacancy.

of the sheriff of Allegany county, to order a special election in

Special

each election district of said county, which shall be found to be

election.

unrepresented by a resident commissioner, for the purpose of

electing one ^commissioner to fill such vacancy, by giving the

usual notice in such district, or districts, prior to said election,

unless such vacancy shall occur within sixty days prior to an

Exception.

annual election, in which case the annual shall supersede the

necessity of said special election, and that said elections shall

be held by the judges of the several election districts when

such vacancy shall occur; and the same shall be held in the

manner prescribed by the act to which this is a supplement.