FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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have performed the special duties imposed by this act and

made the returns thereof ; and the said judges shall be

Appoint

governed and bound iu all respects by the duties, obliga-

judges of
election

tions and penalties prescribed by article thirty -three of the

Code of Public General Laws as the same existed prior to

the enactment of said chapter five hundred and thirty -eight

of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety and shall appoint

clerks in conformity to said article thirty -three of the Code

of Public General Laws, whose duties and penalties, obli-

gations shall be as therein provided ; and in appointing

such judges the county commissioners aforesaid shall select

one of said judges for each election precinct or district in

said county from among those of a different political party

from themselves, and also one of each judges from those of

opposite opinions, '' For removal of county seat to La Plata, "

and "Against removal of county seat to La Plata." And.

How to

elect same.

at the election so to be held the voting shall be by the"

official registries of voters for said county, as the same

existed at the last general election to be delivered to said

judges of election by the sheriff as provided in section

twenty-nine of said article thirty -three of the .Code of

Public General Laws.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That John H. Mitchell, I.

Samuel Turner, A. T. Lloyd, J. Beujamin Mattingly and

Building

Benjamin G. Stonestreet, of Charles County, State of Mary-

committee.

land, be and they are hereby constituted a building committee

for the purpose of having said court house and jail erected,

and selecting a site or sites therefor at La Plata, and in case

of the death or refusal to act or resignation of any one or

more of them a majority of the judges of the Circuit Court

for said county shall fill the vacancy or vacancies, the num-

bers of said committee shall serve without pay, a majority

of them shall form a quorum for business and shall be nec-

essary for the decision of all questions arising in the discharge

of their duties, and said committee shall as speedily as may

be, procure a site or sites for the erection of said buildings

by gift, purchase or condemnation for and in the name of the.

Condemna-

county commissioners of said county ; and if proceedings by

tion.

way of condemnation are necessary, they shall be instituted

by said building committee in the name of the County Com-

missioners of Charles County, and the proceedings shall be

in pursuance of article 23 of the code, sub-title "Condemna-

tion of Property by Corporations," so far as the provisions of

the same may be applicable hereuuto provided the Circuit

Court of Charles County may confirm the same or such notice

as shall be fixed by an order passed on said inquisition of

not less than ten nor more than twenty days after the passage

of this order.