372 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 19.

1868, o. 25 recites that whereas John Miller who was appointed one of the justices
of the peace of the state of Maryland in end for Somerset county, by the governor,
received his commission and was sworn in on the first day of May, 1867, and
between that day and the first Monday in May, 1867, performed official acts, and
whereas it has been since discovered that his term of office did not commence until
the said first Monday in May, 1867, and doubts exists as to the legality of his official
acts as aforesaid performed, now, therefore, it enacts that all the official acts of the
said John Miller as a justice of the peace, performed between the first day of May,
1867, and the first Monday in May, 1867, be and they are hereby made valid and
legal in all respects, as if said acts had been performed after the said first Monday
in May, 1867

ORPHANS' COURT.

See, under Public Local Laws, Art XXII, Wicomico County, the act of 1868, c.
253, providing for the removal of cases of guardianship and wardship from the
orphans courts of the counties of Somerset and Worcester to the orphans' court of
Wicomico county, and providing for the sale of real estate by executors and admin-
istrators resident in Wicomico county where such administration was begun in
either of the counties of Somerset or Worcester.

PRINCESS ANNE.

1868, c. 118 repeals 1867, c. 183, [Sup 616, ] section 103 and re-enacts the same to

read as follows:

1808 c 319 Election of commission- ers

103. The white male citizens of said town who have resided therein six months preceding any election, and all white male citizens residing in Somerset county, and owning real estate within the limits of said town, shall, on the third Monday in June in each year, elect three persons to be commissioners of the town as afore- said; white male citizens who have resided in the state one year and six months within said town limits to be eligible only as commissioners of said town. In force and approved March 30, 1868.

RETAILERS. ,

1868, c. 148 repeals the art of 1865, c. 60 [Sup. 619] and revives and re-enacts
sections 139 to 148 inclusive of the Code of Public Local Laws for Somerset county,
relating to retailers of liquors as fully as if the act of 1865, c. 60 had not been passed.