ORPHANS COURT, &c.

1699

ORPHANS COURT.
AN ACT to increase the pay of the Judges of the Orphans Court in the
Counties of Baltimore, Dorchester and Washington. — 1818, ch. 45.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, eaeh judge of the
orphans court for the counties of Baltimore, Dorchester and
Washington, be and he is hereby entitled to receive, in lieu of
his present per diem, the sum of three dollars for every day's
attendance.
See as to their mode of payment, 1831, ch. 61, sec. 5, ante page 1694,
title, 'Jurors.*

PEOPLE OF COLOUR.
A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act relating to the People
of Colour in this State, passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty-one, chapter two hundred and eighty-one. — 1833, ch, 162.

Allowance
increased.

WHEREAS, by the act, entitled, an act relating to the people
of colour in this state, passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and thirty-one, chapter two hundred and eighty-one,
the proportion of tax to be paid by Baltimore city and county,
was not accurately defined ; therefore,

Preamble.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the commissioners of Baltimore county shall annually
hereafter levy and collect upon the taxable property of said
county, without the limits of the city of Baltimoie, -the sum of
one thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars and eighty-
six cents, and the mayor and city council of Baltimore, shall
annually hereafter levy and collect upon the taxable property

Levy on
the county
$1,297 86.

of said city the sum of one thousand nine hundted and forty-
six dollars and eighty cents, to carry into effect the provisions
of the act to which this is a supplement.

On the city
$1,946 80.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the com mission ers of
Baltimore county, and the mayor and city council of Balti-
more, shall on or before the first day of July next, pay into
the treasury of this state the sums respectively due by them,
under the provisions of the eighth section of the act above
referred to, that is to say, two thousand five hundred and
ninety-five dollars and seventy-two cents, by the said commis-
sioners, and three thousand eight hundred and ninety-three
dollars and sixty cents by the mayor and city council, the

On condi-
tion of pay-
ment by 1st
of July.

same shall be considered as a full release of all claims for ar-
learages against the said city and county, due under the pro-
visions of the aforesaid act.

To be al-
lowed as in
full.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That the said commissioners and
the said mayor and city council are hereby authorized to levy
and collect on the taxable property of the said city and county
respectively, the sums necessary to carry into effect the provi-

Levy au-
thorized.