CONSTABLES.

2035

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That when and as soon as the
commissioners to be appointed by this act shall have taken and
subscribed the oath or affirmation herein before directed, all the
powers, rights and privileges lawfully exercised by, and all
property, estates and effects vested in the levy court of Mont-
gomery county, or in the commissioners of the tax for said
county shall be transferred to, and vested in the commissioners

Powers and
duties
transferred.

for Montgomery county, who, or any three of them, shall
exercise all the rights, powers and privileges, and perform all
the duties required by law to be performed by the levy court
of said county and the commissioners of tax, and no appoint-
ment of justices of the levy court shall hereafter be made.

Boards to
cease.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That not less than three com-
missioners shall form a board for the transaction of business,
any two of whom may decide upon all matters coining before
them ; but the concurrence of three of said commissioners
shall be necessary in directing the payment of money, or in
making appointments to office ; and the said commissioners

Quorum.

shall receive two dollars per day, for each and every day they
shall attend to the duties of their office, when the duties

Compensa-
tion.

thereof require them, and six cents for every mile they shall
necessarily travel, from their residence to the place where

Mileage.

they shall meet; Provided, that no commissioner shall be
allowed more than one charge for mileage as aforesaid, when
they shall meet on two or more successive days.

Proviso.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted.. That the said commissioners
shall meet on the first Monday of April annually, and shall
continue to sit from day to day, for one week, for the transac-
tion of such business as may be brought before them, and shall
also have power to adjourn from time to time, and sit such
number of clays as may be necessary for the discharge of all the
duties required of them.

Annuil
session.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That all suits at law, or in equity,
which may be pending at the time of the passage of this act,
in which the levy court of Montgomery county are parties,
shall be carried on in like manner, and have the same effect
and operation in law as if the commissioners appointed by this

Pending
suits pro-
vided for.

act had been one of the original parties to said suit or suits.
SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That all acts of Assembly which
are contrary to, or inconsistent with the provisions of this act
be, and the same are hereby repealed.

CONSTABLES.
AN ACT relative to the compensation of Bailiffs in Monigomery County.
1826, ch. 231.

Acts in-
consistent
herewith
repealed.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
constables of Montgomery county, when acting as bailiffs to

Allowance

for bailiffs