1956 ARTICLE 8.

mence and continue on and after the first day of January, in the year
1920.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 107. 1860. Art. 8, sec. 55. 1894, ch. 490. 1908, ch. 709

(P- 719).

130. The assistant treasurer of Cecil County shall after the first Mon-
day in July in the year nineteen hundred and eight, act as clerk to the
County Commissioners of said county, and shall perform all the duties
imposed upon the clerk of said Commissioners in the transaction of the
business of the said county; and the said Commissioners shall not, after
the aforesaid date, pay any money or grant any compensation to any per-
son for the performance of said duties of clerk, excepting such as may be
paid to said assistant treasurer.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8. sec, 110. 1882, ch. 62.

131. He is authorized and empowered to administer an oath or affirma-
tion to any person filing in the office of the County Commissioners a claim
against the county, or other paper to which an affidavit may be required
by law, or by order of the Commissioners to any persons who are to be
examined as witnesses in any matter before the Commissioners, and in all
other cases in which he may be required, in the discharge of his duties as
clerk to the Commissioners, to administer an oath or affirmation; and for
such additional service, no additional compensation shall be allowed said
clerk.

1924, ch. 298.

132. Before any deed for the conveyance of real estate in Cecil County
shall be received for record by the clerk of the Circuit Court thereof, the
person offering said deed for record shall submit the same to the clerk
to the County Commissioners of said county, who shall thereupon make
transfer on the county assessment books of the said property to the name
of the new owner or owners thereof, and as evidence of said transfer, shall
stamp upon the said deed his certificate thereof, and no deed shall be re-
ceived for record without said certificate. At the time of submitting the
deed to the clerk to the County Commissioners, the person or persons
offering the same shall furnish said clerk with a statement of the build-
ings, if any, upon the land conveyed by said deed, and the price paid for
the property. If the clerk of the Circuit Court shall receive for record
any deed without requiring the provisions of this section to be complied
with, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars ($50) for each deed
so recorded, +

P. L. L., 1888. Art. 8, sec. 112. 1860, Art. 8, sec. 60.

133. They shall annually levy such sums of money as they may deem
necessary for the support of indigent poor who they think should be out-

*Sec. 2, ch. 709, 1908 (p. 719), repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.
tSec. 2, ch. 298, 1924, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.