FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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or affirmation shall be taken and subscribed by each officer

of registration appointed to act in the City of Baltimore

before a member of the board of supervisors of the election

in the City of Baltimore, or before the clerk of said board

and the said oath or affirmation shall be taken and sub-

scribed by each officer of registration appointed to act

within a county of this State before the clerk of the Circuit

Court for the county in which he is appointed to act ; said

respective oaths or affirmation shall be entered and sub-

scribed in a test book to be by said (board of supervisors of

election in the City of Baltimore, and by said clerks of the

Circuit Courts for the several counties respectively) pro-

vided for this purpose.

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

effect from the date of its passage.

Effective

Approved April 4th, 1892.

CHAPTER 306.

AN ACT to repeal section 3 of article 9 of the Code of Public

Local Laws, title "Charles County," sub-title " Alms-

house," and re-enact the same with amendments, to

regulate the appointment of trustees of the poor in said

county.

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

Maryland, That section 3 of article 9 of the Code of Public

Amend-

Local Laws, title " Charles County," sub-title "Almshouse,"

ment

be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to

read as follows :

3. At their first meeting in the month of November in

every year, the county commissioners shall appoint five

Trustees ot
the poor.

persons inhabitants of said county trustees of the poor of

said county, who shall hold their office for the term of one

year from the date of their appointment and until the

qualification of their successors, subject however, to removal

at the pleasure cf the county commissioners ; and whenever

a vacancy shall exist in said board of trustees from any

cause, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to

fill such vacancy at their uext meeting.

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

from the date of its passage.

Effective

Approved April 4th, 1892.