ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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heretofore; the commissioners of the county, the board of public

school commissioners, justices of the peace, sheriff, constables and

all other State and county officers shall have, hold and exercise

their offices in said town as heretofore, except as qualified by the

other sections of this article, and the county commissioners of

Montgomery county shall on or before the first day of January,

eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and on or before the first day

of January in each and every year thereafter, pay over to the

mayor and council of Eockville, that proportion of the entire

county levy for the repair of roads which the total real property
assessed within the limits of the town of Eockville bears to the

Road tax.

whole amount of assessed property in Montgomery county, so that

the commissioners of Eockville may receive and disburse for the

maintenance of the streets of said town the amount levied upon

the real property within the corporate limits of the town of Eock-

ville for the repair of roads by said county commissioners of

Montgomery county.

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

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 547.

AN ACT to enable the qualified voters of the tenth election

(Sharptown) district, in Wicomico county, to determine by

ballot, whether section forty-one, of article twenty-three, of the

Code of Public Local Laws of Wicomico county, entitled

"Fences," shall be repealed.

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

That the question whether or not secbion forty-one, of article

twenty-three, of the Code of Public Local Laws of Wicomico

county, entitled "Fences," shall be repealed, shall be submitted

to the registered and qualified voters of the tenth election ( Sharp-

To submit.

town ) district of Wicomico county, at the general election to be

held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November,

eighteen hundred and ninety, and the sheriff of said county shall

give notice of the time and purpose of said election, by advertise-

ment in a newspaper printed in said county, and by handbills set

up in said election district of said county, and the expenses of

fiaid election, including costs of advertisement, shall be levied

upon the assessable property of said county by its county commis-

sioners.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the ballots for or against such

repeal, shall have printed or written upon them "For the repeal