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of said Clerk and of said Register, shall be liable for
the loss or destruction of any of said records, riot so
kept in said vaults.
Approved March 22, 1876.
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CHAPTER 86.
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AN ACT to repeal sections seven, seventeen, twenty
and twenty-two of the acts of eighteen, hundred
and seventy-two, chapter two hundred and fifty-
one, and re-enact the same with amendments.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That sections seven, seventeen, twenty
and twenty-two of the acts of eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, chapter two hundred and fifty-one, be,
and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:
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Repealed and
re-enacted.
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7. Be it enacted, That the burgess and assistant
burgess and commissioners shall each qualify as such
before a justice of the peace of Washington county,
by making oath that they will discharge the duties
of their respective offices according to the best of
their skill and judgment, without fear, favor or par-
tiality, a copy of which oath, with a certificate of the
justice administering the same shall be entered upon
the journal of proceedings of the corporation; but if
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they, or either of the officers elected shall fail to
qualify within ten days after the election, the person
or persons so elected and failing to qualify, shall be
deemed as having declined to accept the same, and
an election shall thereupon be held as provided for
in section five, chapter two hundred and fifty-one of
the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and
the burgess and assistant burgess shall continue in
office until their successors shall be elected and duly
qualified, and the commissioners shall continue in
office until a majority of their successors shall be
elected and duly qualified.
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