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47. They may appoint their crier, and he shall be entitled to
fifty cents a day for every day the clerk to the commissioners
shall certify he acted as such.

48. If any person shall be fined for any misdemeanor and is
unable to pay the fine or fees, or give security, and be imprisoned
for want of security, they may levy the amount of fees on the
county, and the levy so made shall entitle the prisoner to his
immediate discharge if he pay the fine or be legally discharged
therefrom; and a certificate from a majority of the commis-
sioners, in the recess of the commissioners, under their hand,
that they will pay such fees at their next session, shall be bind-
ing on the commissioners and entitle the prisoner to a discharge.

CBIEB.

49. The crier of the Circuit Court for Caroline county shall be
entitled to two dollars a day for each day he shall attend the
sittings of the court, in lieu of all fees.

DENTON.

50. The citizens of the village of Denton, in Caroline county,
are a body corporate by the name of " The Commissioners of
-Denton," and by that name may sue and be sued, and may have
and use a common seal.

51. The village of Denton is bounded as described on the plats
thereof recorded in the office of the clerk of Caroline county.

52. The free white male inhabitants of the village of Denton,
above the age of twenty-one years, who have resided therein for
six months next preceding the election, and twelve months in
the State, shall, on the second Monday of April annually, elect
seven persons who have resided in said village twelve months
previous to the election, and who, at the time, are conducting
some business or have a family therein, commissioners for said
village for the ensuing year.

53. The commissioners, or a majority of them, shall be judges
of such election, and the proceedings shall be recorded under
their direction; and every commissioner, before he opens an
election, shall make oath before a justice of the peace that he
will faithfully and impartially permit every person to vote at