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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Approprio-
tion by

and they are hereby authorized and empowered to appro-

Baltimore

priate annually the sum of one thousand dollars, to pay for

City for
rent.

the use of a suitable building to be occupied by the mem-

bers of the Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Association of

Baltimore City.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4th, 1892.

CHAPTER 346.

AN ACT to repeal certain sections of article twenty of the

Code of Public Local Laws, being the Local Code for

Somerset County sub-title " County Commissioners" and

sub-title ''Revenue and Taxes" and to enact other sec-

tions in lieu thereof respecting the term of office and

power of the County Commissioners.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Repealed
and

Maryland, That sections forty-one, forty-two, forty-three,
forty-eight, two hundred and seventeen and two hundred

re-enacted

and eighteen of article twenty of the Public Local Laws,

being the local laws for Somerset County be and the same

are hereby repealed and the following sections and provis-

ions are enacted in their stead to read as follows :

SEC. 41. The county is hereby divided into three com-

Somerset

missioner districts as follows : Princess Anne No. 1, Fair-

County —
division

mount No. 6, and Dublin No. 4, shall constitute commis-

into
districts

sioner district No. 1 ; Mount Vernon district No. 5, Saint

Peters No. 2, Daine Quarter No. 11, and Langer district

No. 9, shall constitute commissioner district No. 2 ; and the

remaining districts of the county shall constitute commis-

sioner district No. 3 5 and the Board of County Commis-

County
commis-

sioners shall consist of the persons one from each of these

sioners

commissioner districts ; and the term of office of all here-

after to be elected shall be six years, and in order to bring

about the election of one commissioner every two years,

and no more, that is to say one at every general election

the term for which the members of the present board shall

respectively serve shall be two, four, and six years respec-

tively from the last election and until their successors are

elected and qualified, and which of the board shall have

these several terms shall be determined by lot cast or drawn

in the presence of and by the direction of one of the judges

of the Circuit Court for Somerset County at one of the