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missioner whose term shall then expire, and the person so to be elected
shall be selected from the same district as the Commissioner whose term
shall so expire, and no two Commissioners from one and the same election
district shall hold office as Commissioners in said county at one and the1
same time. In the event that any vacancy should occur in said Board of
Commissioners for any cause, the Governor shall appoint, a suitable per-
son to fill such vacancy or vacancies, and the person or persons so ap-
pointed shall hold said office for the full term of the person whose office'
shall have become vacant. The appointee so appointed shall be a resident
and voter in the election district wherein the person whose office shall havej
been vacated resided and voted at the time of his election; and the com-
pensation of the said Commissioner shall be the same as is now provided
by Section 15 of Article 25 of the Code of Public General Laws.

P. L. L. 1888, Art. 5, sec. 47. 1888, ch. 311.

76. The County Commissioners are authorized and directed at their
first meeting after their election and qualification, to elect by a majority
vote one of their number president and treasurer, who shall serve until
his successor is elected and qualified.

See sections 87-99 which provide for County Treasurer.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 5, sec. 48. 1888, ch. 311.

77. The said president and treasurer shall receive and be responsible
for all moneys which shall be paid to the said County Commissioners, and
shall keep an accurate account of all receipts and expenditures; and before
he acts as such he shall give bond to the State of Maryland in the penalty
of ten thousand dollars, with surety to be approved by two judges of the
Orphans' Court, or one judse of the Circuit Court for Calvert County,
with conditions that he shall well and faithfully execute his office, and
shall account, for to the County Commissioners of Calvert County, and
pay upon their order the several sums of money which he shall receive
for the said Commissioners, or be answerable for by law, at such times as
the said Commissioners shall require.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 5, sec. 49. 1878, ch. 344.

78. All persons holding orders, checks or drafts drawn by the County
Commissioners of Calvert County upon the collectors of county taxes of
said county, shall present the same to said County Commissioners during
the first five days of their session in April of each year, when they meet
to make the annual State and county levy; and it shall be the duty of
the County Commissioners to make and preserve a memorandum of the
number of each order, check or draft so presented, the amount thereof,
the date of its issue, and the person to whom issued; and the County Com-
missioners are authorized and empowered to levy upon the assessable-
property of the county a sum of money sufficient to pav the same, pro-
vided the funds and solvent tax bills in the hands of the said collectors
appear to be insufficient for the purpose.