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and churchwardens of such new parishes shall be chosen as
herein before provided, and shall have perpetual succession,
and be incorporated, by the name of The Vestry of such new
parish, and such vestry and churchwardens shall have all the
powers hereby granted in this act to other vestrymen and church-
wardens ; provided always, that a majority of the members of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, qualified to vote for vestry-
men, residing in any parish, or part or parts of a parish or
parishes, proposed to be added to any new parish or parishes,
or to be constituted into a new parish, shall consent thereto.

SEC. 34. And be it enacted, That immediately after the elec-
tion of vestrymen on the next ensuing Easter Monday, as herein

Acts
repealed.

before directed, the act,* entitled, an act for the establishment
of select vestries, and all the supplementary acts thereto, shall
be and hereby are repealed.

CHAPTER 34.

*Mar. 1779,
ch. 9.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT * for the establishment and regulation of Levy
Courts in the several counties of this state.
See notes to the original act, ante page, 306.

* 1794, ch.
53.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the governor and council be authorized and required, annually,
to appoint and commission, for each county in this state, seven
of the most discreet and best qualified persons of the said coun-
ty, from the list of those annually commissioned as justices of
the peace, who shall be styled in the commission, justices of
the levy court of such county, and who shall be dispersed as
equally as may be through the county ; and that in case any
vacancy shall happen in any of the said courts by refusal to act,
death, removal out of the county, resignation, or disqualifica-
tion, the governor and council be authorized and required, from
time to time, to supply such vacancy.
So much of this law as restricted the selection to those in the magis-
tracy, was repealed by 1802, ch. 81.
SEC. 2. By this, eleven were to be appointed for Baltimore county. The
powers of the levy court in that county, are transferred to commissioners
elected immediately by the people thereof.

Seven per-
sons to be
appointed
for each
county, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That the justices of the levy courts
aforesaid, or a majority of them, shall be and are hereby invest-
ed with all powers which the justices of the peace of said coun-
ties have had at their respective meetings, as levy courts of
their said counties.
SEC. 4. Repealed by 1798, ch. 70.
SEC. 5. Modified by local laws, graduating their per diem.

Their
powers.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That no justice of the peace of
any of the several counties of this state, other than those justices
appointed and commissioned by virtue of this act, shall have or

Not to
exercise
certain
powers.