ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 170.

AN ACT to repeal sections thirty-one, thirty-two and thirty-

three, of article nineteen, of the Code of Public Local Laws of

the State of Maryland, entitled "St. Mary's county," sub-title

"County Commissioners," and re-enact the same with amend-

ments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That sections thirty-one, thirty-two and thirty-three, of article

Repeal

nineteen, of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "St. Mary's

county," sub-title "County Commissioners," be and they are hereby

repealed and re-enacted to read as follows :

31. They are authorized and directed at their first meeting after

their election and qualification and not later than the year eigh-

teen hundred and ninety-one and thereafter, to elect by a majority

Clerk.

vote a clerk to said board who by virtue of such election, shall

shall also be treasurer and who shall serve as such for the term

of two years and until his successor is elected and qualified.

32. That such person being elected as aforesaid shall give bond

to the State of Maryland in the penalty of five thousand dollars,

with security to be approved by the county commissioners, for the

true and faithful performance of his duties, which bond shall be

liable for any default by him or misappropriation of any of the

county's or State's money or funds entrusted to him, and shall be

recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for said

county; and the county commissioners of said county may enter

Bond,

action or actions on said bond for any such default or misappro-

priation of funds belonging to said county, and said bond may be

also liable to the State of Maryland for any misappropriation of

State's funds or default in the payment thereof; and for the

performance of both clerk and treasurer, he shall receive an an-

nual compensation of not less than five hundred dollars nor

more than six hundred dollars, in the discretion of said county

commissioners.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

Approved March 27, 1890.