COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name, style and
title of 'The Commissioners for Somerset County ;' and by that
name shall have continual and perpetual succession, and be
capable in law of suing and being sued, of making and using
a corporate seal, and of altering the same; of taking, holding,
selling and conveying all kinds of estate, property and effects,
and of doing all such acts as shall be necessary to the exer-
cise of all the powers which are or shall be vested in them by
this act, or by any other act of assembly, as fully and effec-
tually as corporate bodies may or can lawfully and right-
fully do.

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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That when and as soon as the
commissioners to be appointed as aforesaid shall have taken
and subscribed the oath or affirmation herein before described,

Levy court
to cease.

nil the powers, rights and privileges lawfully exercised by,
and all property, estates and effects vested in the justices of
the levy court of Somerset county, shall be transferred to
and vested in the commissioners of Somerset county , who, or
any four of them, shall thereafter exercise all the powers,
rights and privileges, and shall perform all the duties required
by the existing laws to be performed by the said justices of
the levy court of Somerset county; and no appointment of
justices of the levy court shall hereafter be made, and all the
powers lawfully exercised by or vested in the commissioners
of the tax for Somerset county, and all the duties required by
law to be performed by them, shall be vested in and exercised
and performed by the said commissioners for Somerset county,
after they shall have become qualified as aforesaid.

Their
powers and
duties to
the com-
missioners.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the commissioners for So-
merset county shall, at their annual meeting, appoint a fit and

Clerk.

proper person, who shall transact all business, and discharge
all the duties now appertaining to the several and respective
officers of clerk of the levy court and commissioners of the
tax, in the same manner as the clerk of Somerset county and
the clerk of the commissioners of the tax for said county are
now by law severally authorized and required to transact the
same; and the person so appointed, shall, before he enters
upon the duties of his office, execute a bond to the state of
Maryland, to be approved by the said commissioners, in the
penalty of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the true and
faithful performance of the several and respective duties hereby
imposed ; which bond shall be recorded in the clerk's office of
the county court of said county, and a copy thereof, under the
seal of the said court, shall be as sufficient evidence as the
original ; and the said clerk, when appointed, shall also take

His duties.

and subscribe the following oath or affirmation, as the case
may be, to wit : I, A. B. do swear (or affirm) that as clerk of
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Oath of
office.