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368 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 19.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
1868, c 77 entitled an act to repeal the act of 1867, c. 235 [Sup. 612] entitled on act
to repeal section thirty-nine of Art. XIX of the Code of Public Local Laws,
relating to the county commissioners for Somerset county, and to re-enact the
said section thirty-nine of Art XIX of the Code of Public Local Laws, relating to
the county commissioners for Somerset county, enacts as follows
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1868, c. 77.
Three commis-
sioners.
Powers, &c.
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39. There shall be three county commissioners for
Somerset county, whose powers, duties and compensa-
tion shall be as now is or may hereafter be prescribed
by law.
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This act further enacts that the five county commissioners now in office in said
county shall serve out the full terra for which they were elected, and receive such
compensation as is now prescribed by law.
In force and approved February 26, 1868.
ELECTIONS.
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1868, c. 82 repeals sections 46 and 47 and enacts the following in lieu thereof:
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1868, c 82
Election dis-
tricts.
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46. Somerset county is divided into nine election
districts according to their present bounds and limits,
except Princess Anne district, which shall hereafter, in
addition to its former limits, include all that portion of
the Trappe district remaining in Somerset county since
the formation of Wicomico county, and the said dis-
tricts are hereby numbered as follows: Princess Anne
district, number one; Dames' Quarter district, number,
two; Brinkley's district, number three; Dublin dis-
trict, number four; Hungary Neck district, number
five; Potato Neck district, number six; Smith's Island
district number seven; Lawson's district, number eight;
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Where elec-
tions held.
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Tangin district, number nine. And all elections for
public officers shall be held in each of said districts at
the places therein now established by law for that pur-
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Effect of re-
numbering.
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pose. This re-numbering of the said districts shall not
invalidate the appointment of constables or road super-
visors heretofore appointed for said districts by their
former numbers, but the same shall be as valid and
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