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of two, or three commissioners, as the case may be, in like

manner, with the same qualifications, to serve three years.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any commissioner shall

Case of

die, resign, refuse or neglect, for thirty days to qualify as com-

vacancy.

missioner, or remove from the county, or in case of a tie, the

remaining commissioners, shall, so soon as they have qualified,

choose a properly qualified person from the district unrepre-

sented, to fill the vacancy until the next annual election, when

a person shall be elected to serve the residue of the term of the

commissioner so dying, resigning, refusing or neglecting to

qualify, or removing from the county, or to supply any vacancy

arising from a tie, in addition to the commissioners to be

annually elected.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That so soon as the commissioners

Powers,

to be elected under the provisions of this act, shall qualify as

rights and
duties.

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

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

present commissioners, shall be transferred to and vested in the

commissioners who shall be elected as aforesaid, who, or any

four of them, shall exercise all the powers, rights and privileges,

and shall perform all the duties required to be performed by the

act to which this is a supplement.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted r, That all suits at law, or in equity,

Pending

which shall be pending by or against the present commissioners,

suits.

shall be carried on in like manner, and have the same legal

effect either in favour or against the commissioners to be elected

as aforesaid, as if such suit or suits had been instituted by or

against the said commissioners.

Acts in-

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That any act or acts inconsistent

consistent
herewith

with, or repugnant to the provisions of this act, be and the same

repealed.

are hereby repealed.

COUNTY COURT.

AN ACT relating to certain Fees in Anne Arundel County Court.

1831, ch. 100.

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

Court em-

from and after the passage of this act, that in all criminal cases

powered to
allow fees.

which are now, or may be hereafter removed from Baltimore

city court, and Baltimore county court, to Anne Arundel county

court, and tried, it may be lawful for Anne Arundel county

court, to allow to the attorney-general, or his deputy, in ad-

dition to the sum now allowed by law, such compensation as

said court may deem just and proper, to be levied and collected

as other fees.