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612 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 19.
constructed of wood and iron, without resting on posts, but resting OH stone abut-
ments. That Purnell Toadvine, John White and William S. Parsons are hereby
appointed commissioners to select a plan for said bridge, and to contract for and
superintend the building of the same, subject to the ratification and approval of the
said county commissioners, when finished.
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COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
1867, c. 235 repeals, amends and re-enacts section 39:
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1887, c 235.
Number and
election of
county com-
missioners.
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SEC. 39. There shall be five county commissioners
for Somerset county, and at the general election for
county officers to be held in the year eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-seven, in Somerset county, in addition
to the county commissioners to be elected at that
election, under the existing law, two county com-
missioners herein provided for, shall be elected and '
the three county commissioners to be elected as
aforesaid, at the said election; shall hold their offices
for four years, and until their successors shall be
elected and qualified.
In force from March 19, 1867.
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EASTERN SHORE RAILROAD.
1886, c. 11 provides, that the county commissioners of Somerset county, are
authorized and empowered to subscribe for the capital stock of the Eastern Shore
Railroad Company, to any extent they may think necessary to construct and com-
plete the said railroad, not exceeding in the whole the sum of fifty thousand dol-
lars, and in payment thereof, to issue on the credit of the said county, and deliver
to the said company, at their par value, their bonds redeemable in twenty years
from the date thereof, bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum,
payable half yearly, and the faith and property of the said county are hereby
pledged for the payment and redemption of the principal and interest of the said
bonds.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES.
1867, c. 321 repeals and re-enacts section 65 as follows:
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1867, c. 321.
Number of
justices and
constables
fixed.
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65. There shall be the following number of jus-
tices of the peace and constables in Somerset county,
to wit: for election district number one, two justices
of the peace and two constables; for election district
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