EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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regulate his fees, said section to follow Section 17, and to be

designated at Section 17A.

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

land, That Section 186 of Article 23 of the Code" of Pubfic

Local Laws, title "Wicomico County," sub-title "State's At-

torney," be and the same is hereby repealed, and that a certain

new section be and the same is hereby added to said Article 23

of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Wicomico County,"

sub-title "County Commissioners," said section to follow Sec-

tion 17, and to be designated as Section 17A.

I7A. The said Commissioners shall have power to appoint

Right to ap-

a counsel, who shall appear in and prosecute or defend all

point counsel.

cases, civil or criminal, where said county is interested as plain-

tiff or defendant, who shall advise the County Commissioners,

when requested, on all questions of law where the county is

concerned, and assist them in all legal inquiries and investiga-

tions, and who shall receive such fees for his services ren-

dered to the county as may be proper and just, to be levied by

the County Commissioners; provided, that the fees allowed

him under the provisions of this section shall not in any one

year exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars; pro-

vided, however, that the present State's Attorney for Wicomico

Fees.

County shall be the counsel to the said Board of County Com-

missioners during the term for which he was elected.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 281.

AN ACT to make valid all tax sales in the City of Baltimore

made by one City Collector and reported, and the property

conveyed by his successor in office, or made and reported

by one City Collector, and the property conveyed to his suc-

cessor in office.

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

land, That whenever property in the City of Baltimore has

To make valid
tax sales in

been sold for taxes, pursuant to law, by one City Collector,

Baltimore.

and such sale has been reported and the deed executed by the

successor in office of the City Collector who made the sale as

aforesaid, that such report and such conveyance shall be as

valid to all intents and purposes as they would have been if

made by the City Collector who made the sale.