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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.

or owners, shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars, the same

shall be recovered in the same manner as other small debts are

now by law recovered.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

AN ACT to abolish the Levy Court and Commissioners of the Tax for

Anne Arundel County, and for other purposes. — 1828, ch. 21.

SEC. 1. The governor and council directed to appoint, annually, seven

persons, to be styled commissioners for Anne Arundel county, who were

substituted for the levy court and commissioners of the tax. By 1838, ch.

273, the commissioners are to be elected by the people.

Commis-

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That every commissioner ap-

sioners to
take an

pointed as aforesaid, shall, before he enters on the duties of his

oath.

office, take and subscribe, before some judge or justice of the

peace, an oath, or affirmation, that he will faithfully, diligently

and impartially, exercise the powers, and perform the duties, of

commissioners for Anne Arundel county, as authorized and en-

joined by law, according to the best of his skill and judgment,

without being influenced by favour, affection, hatred, malice or

ill will, and that he will, in making all appointments to office,

vote for such persons, among those willing to accept, as in his

judgment and belief shall be most capable and best qualified to

perform the duties of such office, which oath shall be recorded

in a book to be kept among the records of Anne Arundel county

court.

Incorpo-

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners appointed

rated.

as aforesaid, and their successors, shall be, and they are hereby

constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and

title, of the commissioners for Anne Arundel county, and by

that name shall have continued and perpetual succession, and

be capable in law of suing and being sued, of making and

using a corporate seal, and of altering the same, of taking, hold-

ing, selling and conveying, all kinds of estates, property and

effects, and of doing all such acts as shall be necessary to the

exercise of all the powers which are or shall be vested in them

by this act, or by any other act of assembly, as fully and effec-

tually as corporate bodies may or can lawfully and rightfully do.

Powers of

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

levy court
vested in

commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid, shall have taken

commis-

and subscribed the oath, or affirmation, herein before described,

sioners.

all the powers, rights and privileges, lawfully exercised by, and

all property, estates and effects, vested in the justices of the

levy court of Anne Arundel county, shall be transferred to, and

vested in, the commissioners for Anne Arundel county, who, or

any four of them, shall thereafter exercise all the powers, rights

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

existing laws to be performed by the said justices of the levy

court of Anne Arundel county, and no appointment for justices