EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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missioners," as amended by Chapter 475 of the Acts of 1890,

be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with

amendments so as to read as follows:

37. He shall be entitled to such compensation as shall be

fixed by the County Commissioners and shall have power to
administer oaths to all road supervisors who come before

Commissioners
to fix compen-
sation.

said commissioners to settle their accounts, touching the fair-

ness and truth of such accounts, and to all persons who

come before said commissioner to make transfers or ask re-

bates or reductions, or other changes in assessments on the

assessment books of said county, and shall have power to

take affidavits of all persons to be filed in the office of said

commissioners, and to administer an oath or affirmation to

any person presenting a claim to the said commissioners against

said county, and to any person who is to be examined as

a witness in any matter before the said commissioners, for

which service the clerk shall not be entitled to make any charge,

the same being made a part of his official duty as clerk ; and

it shall be the duty of the clerk to keep the office of the

Clerk's duties.

County Commissioners of said county open from nine o'clock

in the forenoon until three o'clock in the afternoon, and to

attend therein for the transaction of business on every day

in the week, except Sunday and legal holidays; the compensa-

tion to be allowed said clerk by the County Commissioners

shall be in full for all the services required of him as said

clerk by law, either general or local; provided, however, that

Proviso.

such compensation of such clerk shall not be less than six

hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars in any

one year.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 541.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 407 of the Acts of the General

Assembly of Maryland, passed at its Session of 1898, entitled

"An Act to add an additional section to Article 38 of the

Code of Public General Laws, entitled 'Fines and For-

feitures," to follow Section 3, and to be known as .Section

4, so far as the same is applicable to Worcester County."

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

land, That Chapter 407 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed at its Session of 1898, entitled "An Act

Not applicable
to Worcester
County.

to add an additional section to Article 38 of the Code of Pub-