COMMISSIONERS OF TAX, &c.

1989

COMMISSIONERS OF TAX-JUDGES OF LEVY COURT
AND WITNESSES— THEIR PAY.
AN ACT to regulate the compensation of Judges of the Levy Court,
Commissioners of the Tax, and Witnesses, for Kent County.— 1837,
ch.260.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That each and every judge of the levy court, and commissioners
of the tax, for Kent county, shall henceforth be entitled to re-
ceive the sum of one dollar and fifty cents for each day they
shall attend as judges of the levy court or commissioners of the

$1 50 per
day.

tax, and in addition thereto, an allowance of six and a quarter
cents per mile, for every mile that his place of residence shall
be distant from Chestertown, the place where the different
courts and commissioners of the tax transact their business, to
be levied, collected, and paid in the same manner, and at the
same time, with his per diem allowance, and he shall be enti-
tled to receive mileage for each day he shall attend said court,
and commissioners of tax for said county.

6 1/4 mileage.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That each and every witness
hereafter to be summoned to attend the county courts of Kent
county, shall be entitled to receive for each day in which he
or she shall attend as witness, the sum of seventy-five cents,

Witnesses
75 cts. per
day.

and in addition thereto, an allowance of six and a quarter cents
per mile, for every mile that his or her place of residence shall
be distant from the place of holding the county courts of Kent
county, and to be levied, collected and paid, in the same man-
ner, and at the same time, with his or her per diem allowance,

6 1/4 mileage.

and he or she shall be entitled to receive mileage for each and
every clay such witness shall attend the court.

Daily.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That nothing contained in this
act, shall be construed to allow any judge of the levy court,
commissioner of the tax, or witness, mileage, in returning to
his or her residence during the time such judge, commissioner
of the tax, or witness, shall be required to attend as such, the
different courts, or to transact the business as a commissioner
of said county.

Not mileage
on return.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the provisions of this act
shall be construed to apply only to witness residing within the
limits of Kent county, whose county courts such witness or
witnesses shall be summoned.

Limitation.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
clerk of Kent county court, to report a list of all such wit-
nesses summoned to attend said county court, with the dis-
tance each witness resides from the place of holding said
county court, to the best of his judgment, to the levy court of
said county, to enable them to make the levy as aforesaid.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That each and every witness to
be hereafter summoned to attend the magistrates or district

Clerk to re-
port lint of
witnesses.

Witnesses
at magic