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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 317.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section

thirty -nine of article one of the Code of Public Local

Laws, title " Allegany County," sub-title " County Treas-

urer," and to add three new sections to said article to fol-

low immediately after section thirty-nine, to be designated

as section thirty-nine A, thirty-nine B, and thirty-nine C.

nine C.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section thirty -nine of article one of the Code

Amend-

of Public Local Laws, title " Allegany County," sub-title

ments.

" County Treasurer," be and the same is hereby repealed

and re-enacted with amendments, and that three new sec-

tions, be and the same are hereby added to said article to

follow immediately after section 39 and to be Numbered sec-

tion thirty-nine A, thirty-nine B, and thirty-nine C, to read

as to said respective sections as follows :

39. At the general election for county officers for Allegany

County

County, to be held in said county, in November, eighteen

Treasurer
to be

hundred and ninety -three, a county treasurer shall be elected

elected.

by the qualified voters of said county, who shall hold the

office of treasurer for a term of two years, from the time of

his election and qualification, or until his successor is elected

and qualified, and the treasurer so elected shall be ineligible

for re-election to said office for two years thereafter, and shall

be subject to removal from his said office for any wilful

neglect of duty, or misbehavior in office at any time by the

county commissioners of said county; and the county com-

missioners for said county at their annual meeting in April

in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, or as soon

thereafter as possible, shall appoint a person of sound

judgment and well known integrity, county treasurer for

said county, who shall hold his office until his successor is

duly elected and qualified as hereinbefore provided ; the

said treasurer so elected, or appointed, shall give bond as

directed in section forty of this article, and said treasurer

Bond.

before proceeding to exercise the duties of his said office

shall take and subscribe an oath such as is taken in cases of

similar trusts and shall not during the term of his office as

such treasurer hold any other office either municipal, county,

State or federal.

Restric-

39 A. It shall not be lawful for the said treasurer during

tions on
treasurer.

his continuance in office, to have, hold, purchase or acquire

for his own use, either directly or indirectly any claim on or