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either of whom is hereby authorized to administer the same: "I do swear
or affirm solemnly that as clerk to the County Commissioners, I will
honestly and faithfully, to the best of my skill and judgment, execute
the duties pertaining to the office which I am about to assume, without
favor, partiality or prejudice, so help me God."
See sec. 343.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 43. 1860, Art. 19, sec. 42. 1892, ch. 346, sec. 43.

34. At and thence forward from the October term of the Circuit Court
for Somerset County eighteen hundred and ninety-two the board of county
commissioners shall provide for the immediate payment of jurors and
State's witnesses in attendance upon said court. The payment to be made
by the treasurer of said board upon presentation and endorsement of the
certificate of such attendance issued by the clerk of the Circuit Court for
Somerset County to each of such jurors and witnesses presenting the same.
And in order to procure the money necessary to put the county treasury
on such cash basis the board of county commissioners are hereby author-
ized and empowered to borrow a sum of money not exceeding six thousand
dollars in amount and to pay interest on the same not exceeding five per
centum per annum and to issue county bonds therefor for sums of not
less than one hundred dollars payable in three, five and ten years as in the
judgment of said board may be deemed most advisable said bonds shall
not be subject to tax for State and county purposes. And the said
board of county commissioners are hereby required to estimate for and
levy in advance each year beginning in the levy for eighteen hundred
and ninety-two a, sum sufficient to pay the jurors and State's witnesses.
who may be summoned to attend said court at its several sittings during
the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and afterwards, and in addi-
tion thereto they shall each year levy such part of the sum so borrowed
as may be necessary to create a sinking fund for the extinguishment of the
debt hereby created at its maturity and to pay annually the interest on
the same.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 44. 1874, oh. 109.

35. It shall be lawful for him to administer the oaths, and take the
probates of all public accounts presented to said commissioners for allow-
ance, in the same manner, and to the same effect and extent as probates
are now made before justices of the peace.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 45. 1860, Art. 19, sec. 45.

36. He shall be entitled to twenty-five cents each for making out and
delivering to the sheriff of said county, certificates of the appointment of
trustees of the poor.

P. L. D., 188'8, Art. 20, sec. 46. 1860, Art. 19, sec. 43.

37. The county commissioners may issue a summons directed to the
sheriff of said county, for any person in said county to appear before
them and testify in any matter of which they may require information;