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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 21.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Chapter

186 of the Acts of 1000, entitled "An Act to fix limit and

determine the term of office of the County Commissioners

of Queen Anne's County that shall hereafter be elected or

appointed, perpetuating succession to same, and repealing

all laws so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions

of this Act. "

Determining

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

the term of
County Com-
missioners.

land, That Chapter 186 of the Acts of Assembly of the year
1900, entitled "An Act to fix limit and determine the term of

office of the County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County

that shall hereafter be elected or appointed, perpetuating suc-

cession to same and repealing all laws so far as they are in-

consistent with the provisions of this Act, " be and the same

is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to

read as follows:

I. The term of office of one of the three County Commis-

Extension of
time for offi-

sioners for Queen Anne's County who was elected at the

cials

general election in November, 1903, is hereby extended for

two years so that his term shall expire in 1907 instead of

1905. The selection of the Commissioner whose term is hereby

extended shall be made by the Board of County Commissioners

for said county and by them certified to the Governor. At the

general election to be held in 1905 there shall be elected two

County Commissioners in said county, one for the term of two

years and one for the term of four years, and biennially

thereafter there shall be elected in said county two County

Commissioners, one for the term of two years and one for

the term of four years.

2. In case any vacancy shall occur in said Board by death,

Election to fill

resignation, removal or otherwise, the Governor shall fill the

vacancy.

vacancy until the next general election, and at said next general

election a County Commissioner shall be elected by the quali-

fied voters of said county to fill the unexpired term of the

Commissioner whose office shall have been vacated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all laws or parts of laws in-

consistent with the provisions of this Act be and the same are

hereby repealed, and that this Act shall take effect from the

date of its passage.

Approved March 3, 1904.