COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

affirmation shall be recorded in a book to be kept among the
records of Washington county;

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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners elected
or appointed as aforesaid, and their successors shall be, and
they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by
the name, style and title, of the commissioners of Washington
county, and by that name shall have continued 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 ne-
cessary to the exercise of all powers which are or shall be
vested in them by this act, or by any other act of assembly,
as fully and effectually as corporate bodies may or can lawfully
and rightfully do.

Corporate
powers.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That when, and as soon as the
commissioners to be elected or appointed as aforesaid, shall
have taken and subscribed the oath or affirmation herein before
described, all the power, rights and privileges, lawfully exer-
cised by, and all property, estate and effects, vested in the
justices of the levy court of Washington county, and commis-
sioners of the tax, shall be transferred to, and vested in the
commissioners of Washington county, who, or a majority of
them, shall thereafter exercise all the said powers, tights and
privileges, and shall perform all the duties required to be per-
formed by the said justices of the levy court for Washington
county, and no appointment of justices of the levy court of
Washington county, shall thereafter be made, and all the pow-
ers lawfully exercised by, or vested in the commissioners of
the tax for Washington 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 Washington
county, after they shall have become qualified as aforesaid.

Powers, &c.
of levy
court and
commis-
sioners of
tax trans-
ferred.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That the commissioners of Wash-
ington county, shall, at their annual meetings, appoint a well
qualified, fit and proper person, a resident of said county, to
act and serve as clerk to the said commissioners, who shall
transact all the business and discharge all the duties now ap-
pertaining to the several and respective offices of clerk of the
levy court and commissioners of the tax, in the same manner
as the clerk of Washington county court, and clerk of the
commissioners of the tax for said county, are now by law seve-
rally authorized and required to transact the same, and the
person so appointed, shall before ho enters upon the duties of
his office, execute a bond to the state of Maryland, to be ap-
proved of by the said commissioners, in the penalty of one
thousand dollars, conditioned for the true and faithful perform-

Clerk;
bond; oath;
penalties.