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REGISTRATION. [Am. — .
by the county commissioners thereof respectively, the
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Accounts to be
approved.
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accounts of said officers of registration to be verified
by vouchers and subject to the approval of said mayor
and city council and said county commissioners respec-
tively.
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Ibid s 22
Neglect or refu-
sal of register,
clerk of court,
&c.
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33. If any officer of registration, or clerk of a court,
or register of wills, or sheriff, or judges of election, or
police commissioners, shall knowingly refuse or neglect
to comply with any of the provisions of the several sec-
tions of this article imposing duties on him, he shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall on present-
ment and indictment therefor and conviction thereof
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Penalty.
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forfeit and pay a fine of not less than five hundred nor
more than one thousand dollars for every such offence,
or be imprisoned in the discretion of the court for a
time not exceeding three years or both, and shall also
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Damages
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be liable in damages at the suit of the party aggrieved.
Passed and approved March 30, 1868.
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PAYMENT OF REGISTRATION CLERKS.
1868, c. 166 entitled an act to authorize and empower the county commissioners
of Washington and Allegany counties to levy a sum of money upon the taxable
property within their respective counties sufficient to pay the several clerks of the
registers of voters within the said counties, enacts that the county commissioners
of Washington county, and the county commissioners of Allegany county, be, and
they are hereby authorized and empowered to levy upon the taxable property within
their respective counties, a, sum of money sufficient to pay the severe! clerks of
registers of voters employed by the said registers in the years eighteen hundred and
sixty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and eighteen hundred and sixty-seven,
and that the said commissioners shall ascertain and cause to be paid such clerks,
the several and respective sums for services to which each of the said clerks shall
be found to be entitled.
In force and approved March 20,1868.
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