CRIER— CROWS— FENCES.

1837

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to provide for electing Com-
missioners for Cecil County, by districts, and prescribing their Powers
and Duties, and repealing an Act and its Supplements, therein men-
tioned, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one,
chapter one hundred and sixty-four — 1837, ch. 278.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That at the next election for delegates to the general assembly,
and at the same election in every two years thereafter, seven
persons shall be elected as commissioners of Cecil county, in

Bi-annual
elections.

the manner following, to wit : the qualified voters in each elec-
tion district of said county, shall vote by ballot for one person,
a resident of said district, to be commissioner of said county ;
and the persons having the highest number of legal votes in the
said districts respectively, shall be declared duly elected com-
missioners of said county, and they shall be required to have
the same qualifications as are requiied for delegates to the
general assembly, and shall continue in office for two years.

One in each
district.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That all parts of acts incon-
sistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

Repealing
clause.

CRIER.
AN ACT to authorize the Justices of the Orphans Court of Cecil County
to appoint their Crier.— 1824, ch. 135.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the justices of the orphans court of Cecil county, be, and they
are hereby authorized to appoint their crier from and after the
first day of April next.

Appoint-
ment of
crier. *

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the levy court of Cecil
county, is hereby authorized and diiected to levy on the as-
sessable property of said county annually, a sum of money for
the use of the crier aforesaid, not exceeding one dollar per day
for every day that the legister of wills shall certify that the
said crier acted as such. t

CROWS,
AN ACT to encourage the destruction of Crows in this State. — 1831,
ch. 227.
See 'Calvert County,'title 'Crows,' ante page 1730.

FENCES.
AN ACT regulating Fences in Cecil County. — 1822, ch 82.

Levy and
pay.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That corn-fields and all giounds kept for enclosures, shall be
fenced with a post and rail fence, or worm fence well staked
and ridered, made of good and substantial rails, at least four
feet and a half high from the ground to the top of the upper
rail ; and all worm fences not staked and ridered shall be at
least five feet high from (he ground to the (op of the upper

Regulation.