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such list fifty cents for each night he may be certified therein to
have served.

47. Any three creditable inhabitants of Calvert county may
make oath before the Circuit Court, or the judge thereof in vaca-
tion, that they verily suspect or believe that ----, a person
having a license to sell or trade in said county, deals unlawfully
with negroes, or is in the habit of receiving stolen goods; and
upon the receipt of such oath by the court, or judge in vacation,
he shall order a summons to issue, returnable upon a certain day,
for the person charged to appear and answer the charges.

48. Upon the return day of the summons, if the party shall
be returned "summoned," or the summons shall have been left
ten days at his place of abode, the judge or court shall examine
the case, and if satisfied that the person charged is generally re-
puted to deal with negroes contrary to law, or to receive stolen
goods, or if the court or judge shall have good reason to believe
that such person deals or receives goods in the manner aforesaid,
the court or judge may take away and annul the license of such
person.

49. No trader, whose license may be suspended under the last
aforegoing section, shall be competent to trade or sell in Calvert
county under the license of any other person obtained for his
use, nor shall he have a license granted to him at any time
thereafter.

ORPHANS' COURT.

50. The compensation of each judge of the Orphans' Court
shall be two dollars for each day's attendance; and if he reside
one mile or more from the county town he shall receive in addi-
tion to his per diem, mileage at the rate of six and a quarter
cents per mile for the distance necessarily travelled from his resi-
dence to the county town on each day's attendance.

OUT-PENSIONS.

51. The county commissioners of Calvert county may keep as
many out-pensioners and allow them such pensions as they may
think proper, not exceeding twenty dollars in any one case, ex-
cept in cases of extreme poverty and distress and inability to
labor, when they may in their discretion allow a pension of forty
dollars.