LANDS, VACANT— POOR.

to the amount now required by law, and annually thereafter, a
sufficient sum in advance, to pay jurors and state witnesses in
said county, promptly at the close of each term of the said
county court.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
collector of said county, whenever any person shall present to
him an order from the clerk of Washington county court for
his attendance as a juror or state witness, at any time after the
close of the November term in eighteen hundred and thirty-
seven, to pay over to such person or his order the amount due
him, after deducting therefrom all charges the collector may
have against such jurors or witnesses.

Collector
required to
pay certi-
ficates.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That the clerk of Washington
county court is hereby required to furnish each juror with an
order for the amount of his per diem in the same manner that
orders are now granted to witnesses.

LANDS, VACANT,
AN ACT relative to vacant State Lands in Washington County. — 1827,
ch. 201.

Order for
per diem.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all vacant lands in Washington county, may hereafter be
taken up by common or special warrant, or warrant of resurvey
in the usual manner, at twenty-five cents per acre, one-half to
be paid at the time of obtaining the warrant, and the other half
on the return of the certificate; Provided, that all warrants
already issued shall be compounded on, agreeably to the law
under which they were respectively obtained.

Vacant
lands may
be taken up.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all laws heretofore passed
on this subject, which are contrary to, or inconsistent with the
provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

LEVY COURT.
Merged in 'County Commissioners.'

METHODIST CAMP MEETINGS.
All the local acts are merged in 1824, ch. 53, ante page 803.

ORPHANS COURT.
1818, ch. 45, see 'Baltimore County,' title 'Orphans Court,' ante page
1699.

POOR.
AN ACT for the relief of the Poor of Washington County.— 1796, ch. 22.
A Supplement, 1797, ch.34.

Acts in-
consistent
herewith
repealed.

WHEREAS, the increase of the poor within Washington
county is very great and burthensome, and which might be
greatly lessened by a due regulation of them by law ; there-
fore,

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Preamble.