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80. The said commissioners shall receive two dollars per day
each for every day they shall necessarily attend to the duties of
their office, and two dollars for every twenty miles they may
have to travel to their place of meeting.

81. They shall be exempt from serving as jurors in any of the
courts of said county, and it shall not be lawful for the sheriff to
summon them as such.

82. The clerk to the county commissiopers of said county
shall receive such salary as they may determine.

83. He shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office,
execute a bond to the State of Maryland, to be approved by the
commissioners in the penalty of one thousand dollars, conditioned
for the true and faithful performance of the duties of his office,
and the said bond shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of
the Circuit Court for said county.

84. He shall also, when appointed, take and subscribe before
one of said commissioners the following oath: "I, A. B., do swear
that as clerk to the county commissioners of Anne Arundel
county, I will honestly and faithfully, to the best of my skill and
judgment, execute the duties of the said office without favor,
aflfection or prejudice, so help me God."

85. The county commissioners may grant out-pensions to poor
persons in their discretion, but no person shall be placed upon
their list of out-pensioners who is a freeholder, or able to obtain
a livelihood by any honest and lawful occupation; or who is in
the habit of debasing himself by frequent intoxication and other
demoralizing vices; nor shall any person be placed upon said list
who is not a naturalized citizen of the United States, or who has
not for one year immediately preceding his application been a
resident of Anne Arundel county.

86. Every person may petition the county commissioners to
be placed upon the list of out-pensioners, and the commissioners
shall examine the petition fully and impartially, and decide
thereon according to the provisions of the aforegoing section.

87. They may allow a sum not exceeding in any case thirty
dollars per annum to any one out-pensioner for his support, and

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