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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 177.
AN ACT to allow the County Commissioners of
Charles county to pay Richard Barries, Senior, the
usual per diem and compensation during the time
he was prevented in eighteen hundred and seven-
ty-four and eighteen hundred and seventy-five by
sickness, from attending as Chief Judge of the
Orphans Court.

Allow com-
pensation

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in view of his long and faithful ser-
vices as Chief Judge of the Orphans Court of Charles
county, the county commissioners for said county
be, and they are hereby authorized to allow Richard
Barnes, Senior, out of the next assessment or out of
any surplus funds in their hands at the passage of
this act the usual per diem and compensation during
the time he was prevented by sickness in eighteen
hundred and seventy-four and eighteen hundred and
seventy-five from attending the sessions of the Or-
phans Court aforesaid, the days of his nonattendance
to be ascertained and reported by the register of

In force.

wills to said commissioners as soon as convenient;
and that this act take effect from the date of its pas-
sage.

Approved March 27, 1876.