JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That if the corporators,

or the president and board of managers, shall refuse

Have authori-

ty

or neglect, for twelve months, to fill vacancies, the

Orphan's Court of Cecil county, for the time being,

shall have authority to fill them; that this charter

shall not fail because of remissness to fill vacancies

or to keep up a board of managers, but appoint-

ments, by the Orphans' Court, shall have the same

effect as if the members were elected or appointed

according to the former provisions of the charter ;

the president, in case of removal or vacancy, shall be

elected by the managers; and that the said cemetery

shall be exempt from taxation of every kind.

Approved April 8, 1876.

CHAPTER 375.

AN ACT to continue in force the act of eighteen

hundred and seventy-two, chapter four hundred

and twenty, entitled "an act to revive, re-enact

and amend certain sections of the act of eighteen

hundred and fifty-two, chapter three hundred and

sixteen, entitled an act to authorize the appoint-

ment of a commissioner to take testimony, to

provide for the recording of copies of wills and

other papers, of which the originals were lost by

the burning of the Court House in Dorchester

county, and to remedy, as far as practicable, the

evils likely to ensue from the destruction of the

records of said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the act passed at January session,

Continued in

eighteen hundred and seventy-two, chapter four

full force.

hundred and twenty, entitled an act to revive, re-

enact and amend certain sections of the act of eigh-