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ALLEGANY COUNTY.

Expenses

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the cost of said special elec-

levied.

tions shall be levied upon, and paid by the county, as in other

cases of election in said county.

Clerk of

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the present clerk of the

commis-
sioners.

commissioners is hereby qualified to hold his said office by

virtue of this act, until the close of the April session of said

commissioners, in the year eighteen hundred and forty, at

which April session, it shall be the first duty of said commis-

sioners, to elect a competent clerk, who shall enter upon the

duties of his said office, commencing with the close of said ses-

sion, and shall serve for one year thereafter, as provided in the

original act to which this is a supplement.

Annual

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That the annual February ses-

February
session

sion of county commissioners, as heretofore held, is, by virtue

abolished.

of this act, abolished.

COUNTY COURT.

AN ACT to repeal an Act, entitled, an Act to provide for the more com-

plete Administration of Justice, in Equity cases in Allegany County. —

. 1831, ch. 312.

Repeal.

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

the act of the general assembly of Maryland, entitled, an act

to provide for the more complete administration of justice, in

equity cases in Allegany county, passed at December session,

eighteen hundred and thirty, chapter thirty, shall be, and is

hereby repealed.

DEBTORS AND PRISONERS.

AN ACT to increase the allowance to the Sheriff of Allegany County, for

keeping Prisoners and supporting them in gaol. — 1817, ch. 96.

Allowance

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

increased to
25 cents.

it shall and may be lawful for the sheriff of Allegany county to

ask, demand and receive, for all persons committed to the gaol

of said county, the sum of twenty-five cents per day for each

prisoner, to be levied and received according to law, in lieu of

the sum now allowed.

DEER.

AN ACT for the preservation of the breed of Wild Deer, and for other

purposes therein mentioned. — 1789, ch. 5.*

Deer not to

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

be killed,
&c.

it shall not be lawful for any person or persons whatsoever to

shoot, or otherwise kill or destroy, wild deer, except from the

fifteenth of September to the fifteenth of December yearly,

under the penalty of five pounds for every deer so killed or

destroyed, to be recovered in the county court of the county

where the said offence shall be committed, by indictment or in-

formation, one-half of which said sum of five pounds shall be