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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

amount did not compensate the said Jacob Socey

for the actual expenses attending said arrest, there-

fore —

Directed to pay.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury

upon satisfactory evidence of the above recited facts,

draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for the sum of

three hundred dollars, which said Treasurer shall

and he is hereby directed to pay to the said Jacob

Socey, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the

State not otherwise appropriated.

In force.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

from and after its passage.

Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 411.

AN ACT to repeal section one of article twenty-

eight, of the Code of Public General Laws, title

" County Commissioners, " and to re-enact the

same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Repealed and

Maryland, That section one, article twenty-eight, of

re-enacted

the Code of Public General Laws, title " County

Commissioners, " be and the same is hereby repealed

and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

Incorporated

SEC. 1. The County Commissioners of each county
in this State, are declared to be a corporation, and

shall have full power to appoint judges of election,

road supervisors, collectors of taxes, trustees of the

poor, a clerk to their board, and all other officers

Powers

agents, and servants required for county purposes,

not otherwise provided for by law or by the Con-

stitution, and they shall have charge of and control

over the property owned by the county, and over

county roads and bridges, and may whenever in

their opinion the public interest require or will be