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DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.
STATE'S ATTORNEY.
1S62, c. 14 repeals section 30 and enacts the following:
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1862, c. 14.
Fees.
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30. The county commissioners of Dorchester county
are hereby required to allow to and levy for the use
of the state's attorney for Dorchester county, in all
cases which may hereafter be tried in said county,
the fees following, to wit: in every case of murder,
arson, or rape, twenty-five dollars; in every case of
felony, other than murder, arson or rape, fifteen dol-
lars; in every case of misdemeanor punishable, by
confinement in the penitentiary, ten dollars; and in
all other misdemeanors, five dollars; said fees to be in
addition to the regular appearance fees now allowed
by law.
In force from January 3, 1862.
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NOTE. —The words in the act " if the party charged be a white man by confinement in the
penitentiary or if a negro by sale, " are modified to conform to the act of 1867, c. 10, which
see under Crimes and Punishments, Art XXX, Public General Laws.
CAMBRIDGE.
1862, c. 61 repeals section 33 and substitutes the following:
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1862, c 61.
Who may vote
for town com-
missioner.
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33. The free white male inhabitants of said town,
above the age of twenty-one years, who have resided
within the limits of said town for one year next pre-
ceding the election, and free white male persons
above the age of twenty-one years, not residents of
said town, having a freehold estate or leasehold pro-
perty for a term exceeding twenty-one years in said
town, shall, on the second Saturday of March annu-
ally, at the court house in said town, elect a person,
residing in said town or within three miles thereof,
and possessed of landed property in the town, in his
own right or in the right of his wife, a commissioner
in the place of the commissioner whose term of office
has expired.
In force from December 13, 1861.
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