1708

BALTIMORE COUNTY.

AN ACT authorizing the Commissioners of Baltimore County to appoint
Trustees to the Poor of said County.— 1838, ch. 263.

May ap-
point three
trustees
annually.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the first day of February, eighteen hun-
dred and forty, the commissioners of Baltimore county shall
appoint three efficient and well qualified persons from said
county, to act as trustees to the poor of said county, and such
appointment shall be made annually on the first Monday in
February, or at their first meeting thereafter.

Restriction.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That no trustee shall serve for
more than five successive years, unless he shall receive the
unanimous vote of the board of commissioners.

PUBLIC ROADS.
The act of 1794, ch. 52, ante page 1334, embraces Baltimore County.
To save the re-print thereof, it will be here referred to, and its modifica-
tions as to Baltimore, will be only classed under this chapter.
The second section of that act is modified by 1795, ch. 43, sec. 3, ante
page 1386, which fixes the maximum of the annual levy for repairing the
public roads in Baltimore County, at five shillings in the one hundred
pounds.
The 3d, 4th and 5th sec. of 1794, ch. 52, are lepealed by 1797, ch. 109.
See 1826, ch. 217, ante page 1650.
Sec. 7, is modified as to Baltimore County so far as relates to the secu-
rities by 1797, ch. 109.
Sec. 13, is modified as to Baltimore County, by 1797, ch. 109.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act relating to Public
Roads in this State, and to repeal the Acts of Assembly therein men-
tioned.— 1797, ch. 109.

Part of an
act repealed
&c.

* Ch. 52.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
so much of the seventh section of the said original act, passed
at November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-four,* as
directs the several supervisors to give bond, with such security
as shall be approved by the said justices, be and hereby is re-
pealed, so far as it concerns Baltimore county, and that instead
thereof, every supervisor appointed in Baltimore county in
virtue of the said act shall, within thirty days next after his
appointment, give bond to the state of Maryland, with such
sureties as shall be approved by the clerk of the said county,
who is hereby directed and required to take the same in
double the sum that may be apportioned by the levy court
to be expended or laid out by the said supervisor ; Provided,
that no security shall be approved as aforesaid by the clerk
of the said county, unless it be established, to the satisfaction
of such clerk, (hat each and every such surety be seized and
possessed, in his own right, of a clear free-hold estate of the
value of double the sum of money that may be apportioned as