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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 321.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section

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

Laws, title ''Garrett County," sub-title " County Commis-

sioners, "and to add two additional sections to said article

to be designated thirty-one A, and thirty-one B, relating

to the election and term of service of said county commis-

sioners, and the filling of any vacancy which may occur

in the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That section thirty -one of article twelve of the

Amend-
ment and

Code of Public. Local Laws, title "Garrett County," sub-

new
sections.

title " County Commissioners," be and the same is hereby

repealed and re-enacted with amendments, to read as follows:

and that the following new sections be added to said article

to follow section thirty-one, and to be numbered section

thirty-one A, and section thirty one B, and to read as

follows :

Terms of

31. The three County Commissioners of Garrett County,

County

elected at the general election on the Tuesday next after the

Commis-
sioners

first Monday in the month of November, in the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-one, shall hold their office for two years

from the time of their election, and shall receive the same

compensation as now provided by law.

31 A. At the general election to be held on the first

Terms of

Tuesday after the first Monday of November, eighteen hun-

County
Commis-

dred and ninety -three, there shall be elected three County

sioners to
be here

Commissioners for Garrett County, that is to say, two for

after

the term of four years and one for the term of two years ;

elected

and from and after such election, there shall be three County

Commissioners for Garrett County, and at every general

election in every second year thereafter, there shall be

elected respectively on the first such general election, one

commissioner to serve for the term of four years, and at the

second such general election thereafter, there shall be elected

two commissioners to serve for the term of four years, and

the terms of all commissioners after the first election pro-

vided for in this act shall be for four years, and said com-

missioners so elected shall receive the same compensation

as now provided by law.

31 B. If at any time the number of county commissioners

Vacancy.

shall be reduced to less than three, the Governor shall

appoint a proper person to fill such vacancy until the general