ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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in the judgment of said sheriff and the State's attorney for said

county, necessary for the safe keeping of such prisoner or

prisoners.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the compensation of such

warden shall not exceed the sum of one dollar per day for the

Per diem

time so employed, and shall be levied by the county commissioners

at their annual levy of taxes for said county.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 286.

AN ACT to repeal section two hundred and three, of article

twenty-four, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,

title "Worcester county," sub-title "Pocomoke," and re-enact

the same with amendments.

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

That section two hundred and three, of article twenty-four, of

the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Worcester

Repeal

county," sub-title "Pocomoke," be and the same is hereby repeal ed

and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

203. The male residents of said Pocomoke city of the age of

twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens of the United States,

who have resided in said town for the space of six months next

preceding the first Monday in June, shall elect by ballot on that

Town com-

day, at such place as may be designated by the town commis-

missioners

sioners of said Pocomoke city, after notice thereof has been given

by handbills, at least ten days before said day, and in every second

year thereafter, accounting from the year eighteen hundred and

ninety, five commissioners for said town who shall have resided

within the limits of said town one year next preceding said elec-

tion.

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

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.