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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,
be and the same are hereby repealed, amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows :

Five count:
commission-
ers.

SEC. 79. There shall be five County Commission-
ers for Anne Arundel county, who shall be, and they
are hereby required to meet in the office of the Board
of County Commissioners in the City of Annapolis,
the first Tuesday in each month, and as much oftener
as the public interest may require, and shall continue
in session at least two days during each session of

the Circuit Court, and one week at their meeting in
January for the purpose of making transfers.

Divide county

Appoint suit-
able person.

SUB-SECTION— SEC. 2. Said commissioners shall
divide the county into seven collection districts as
follows : the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and
eighth election districts shall each constitute one col-
lection district, and the City of Annapolis shall con-
stitute the remaining or seventh collection district in
said county, and the county commissioners of said
county shall annually, in the month of March, or as
soon thereafter as may be practicable, appoint a suit-
able person for each of these collection districts, to
collect the county and State taxes which may be
levied in each of these collection districts, nor shall
they be interested directly or indirectly in any con-
tract, in which the county may be interested.

In force.
Except.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect, except as to the terms and effect of sub-section
two, which is to take effect immediately from the
time of the passage of this act, from and at the ex-
piration of the time for which the present County
Commissioners of AnneArundel county were elected.

Approved April 7, 1876.