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WORCESTER COUNTY.

court clerk ex officio of commis- sioners.	and that he shall transact all the business, perform all the duties, be liable to the same obligations and subject in every respect to the same regulations that the clerk of the county court, acting as clerk of the levy court, is now subject to by law.
Compensa- tion, $2 per day.	SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall be entitled to receive two dollars per day each, for each and every day he shall necessarily attend to the duties of his
And mileage.	office, and six and a quarter cents for every mile he may have to travel to the place of meeting of the said commissioners ; Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to allow the said county commissioners mileage after the first day's attendance, whenever said commissioners shall adjourn from day to day for the transaction of business.
Suits, &c. continued.	SEC. 14. 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, by, or against the justices of the levy court of said county, shall be carried on in like manner, and have the same legal effect, cither in favour of, or against the commissioners provided for by this act, as if said suit or suits had been insti- tuted by or against the said commissioners.
Acts in- consistent herewiih repealed.	SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That so much of any acts of assembly as may be contrary to, or inconsistent with this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

	AN ACT, entitled, an Act better to define and prescribe the power and duties of the Levy Court, and Trustees of the Poor of Worcester County.— 1838, ch. 101.
Authority to grant pensions repealed.	SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all laws heretofore passed, authorizing or empowering the levy court, or trustees of the poor of Worcester county, to grant pensions by way of county assessment, be and the same are hereby repealed, any law or usage to the contrary notwith- standing.
Except in cases of persons confusd to bed.	SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to deprive the trustees as aforesaid, from granting any allowance or pension in their discretion, when the applicant for such allowance or pension shall be confined to his or her bed with disease at the time of said application.
Act of 1829, ch 108, repealed.	SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the act of assembly passed December session eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, chapter one hundred and eight, be, and the same is hereby repealed. COMMISSIONERS OF TAX. Merged in 'County Commissioners.'