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LAWS OF MARYLAND. 1839.

	BALTIMORE COUNTY. AN additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, passed at December session, eigh- teen hundred and twenty-six, chapter two hundred and seventeen, pro- viding for the election of Commissioners for Baltimore County, and prescribing their powers and duties. — 1839, ch. 23.
Preamble.	WHEREAS, by a supplement of December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, chapter two hundred and one, it is provided that the commissioners of Baltimore county, so soon as they shall have ascertained the amount of tax to be levied annually on said county, they shall apportion the amount to be collected in each election district of said county ; And whereas, it is found to be inconvenient to put the aforesaid act into ope- ration until a new assessment shall have been made of the real and personal property of said county ; therefore,
Repeal.	Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the fourth and fifth sections of the aforesaid supplement, be, and the same are hereby repealed ; Provided however, that
Not to exceed seven per cent.	the commissioners for Baltimore county shall not exceed seven per centum upon the taxes of the whole county for collection, and that said commissioners shall give at least ten days notice by advertising in two of the newspapers in the city of Balti- more, the time of making their appointments for the collection of taxes.

	AN additional SUPPLEMENT 40 an Act, to authorize the repairing of the Court-house of Baltimore County, and for other purposes, passed December session, eighteen hundred aud thirty-four, chapter oue hun- dred fifty-eight.— 1839, ch. 56. See ante page 2366. AN ACT to provide for the payment of State Witnesses in Baltimore County.— 1839, ch. 86.
Levy to pay state witnesses.	SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the commissioners of tax of Baltimore county, be, and they are hereby authorized and required to levy on the assess- able property of said county, at the usual time of making the county levy, annually, such sum of money as may appear, from the certificates of the clerk of Baltimore county court, to be due to persons for their attendance as state witnesses at said court ; which said sums of money shall be paid over to the per- sons entitled thereto, by the treasurer of said county, in the same manner as other county charges.
Clerk to make out list of state witnesses.	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the clerk of Baltimore county court, to make out annually, before the time of making the county levy, a list of the state witnesses who have attended at said court, with the number of days they have attended thereon, and to lay said list before the said com- missioners of tax.