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jurors
forbid.
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coroner or justice of the peace on an inquest, in the city and
county of Baltimore, shall be entitled to, or receive any fee or
compensation for his services, any law to the contrary notwith-
standing.
This repeals the 3d section of 1821, ch 243, so far as it relates to the
city and county of Baltimore.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
AN ACT to provide for electing Commissioners for Baltimore County, and
prescribing their powers and duties. — 1826, ch. 217.
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Commis-
sioners to
be elected,
ice ; vacan-
cies.
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SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the persons qualified to vote for delegates to the general
assembly in Baltimore county, at the time and places of elec-
tion in said county, on the first Monday in October next, shall
vote by ballot, for three persons having the same qualifications
as are required for delegates to the general assembly, to be com-
missioners for Baltimore county; and the judges of election for
each district in the said county, or a majority of them, shall
certify, under their hands, and return in a form and manner
similar to their certificates and return of other elections, the
number of votes given in their respective districts for commis-
sioners as aforesaid ; and the judges from the several election
districts, when met at the court-house of the said county to
ascertain and certify the election of delegates, shall in like
manner ascertain the whole number of votes given for each
person as commissioner; and the said judges shall, by a certifi-
cate to be filed with the clerk of Baltimore county court, and
by him recorded, certify in a form similar to the certificate of
the election of delegates, that the three persons by name, being
duly qualified, who they shall ascertain to have received the
greatest number of votes, are duly elected commissioners for
Baltimore county ; and the said judges shall also state in the
said certificate the number of votes received by each person
elected, of whom the highest in votes shall be entitled to serve
three years, the next highest two years, and the lowest in votes
one year, and their places respectively shall be supplied by the
annual election of one commissioner in like manner, and with
the same qualifications, to serve three years ; and if any com-
missioner shall die, resign, refuse or neglect, for twenty days,
to take the oath of office, or remove from the county, the gover-
nor and council shall appoint a properly qualified person to fill
his place until the time of the next annual election, when a
person shall be elected to serve the residue of Ins term, if any,
in addition to the commissioner to be annually elected.
By 1835, ch. 28, the number of commissioners is increased ; they are
distributed to the election districts, their period of service Is limited, and the
mode of supplying vacancies in the board is pointed out, and this law was.
again modified by 1838, ch. 201.
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