FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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of commissioners last existing under, and by virtue of the

act passed at the January session of the General Assembly:

Preamble.

of Maryland, eighteen hundred and seventy -eight, chapter

four hundred and thirty-six, has been reduced to two per-

sons, namely, Edward White and Zadoc P. Henry, thereby

leaving said board without a quorum, and therefore unable

to act, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That William C. Franklin, James S. Burboye,

Vacancies

and William J. Shockley be and they are hereby appointed

filled.

by this General Assembly to complete and fill the vacancies in

said board of commissioners, who together with said Edward

White and Zadoc P. Henry, shall constitute the five com-

missioners required by law, with power and authority to

appropriate the money in the hands of said commissioners

for the. purpose specified by the law in his case made and

provided.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all moneys and property

of every kind, including all evidence of debt due by or

to the commissioners acting under the provisions of the

Property,
&c.. to be

act of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at its

turned
over to

January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, chap-

new board.

ter four hundred and thirty-six, shall be paid over and

delivered to the board of commissiouers, created by this

act by the said Edward White and Zadoc P. Henry, sur-

viving commissioners of the old board, who shall make a

statement, under oath, of the moneys and property in their

hands as said commissioners, on or before the third day of

May, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, which

statement shall be delivered to the new board created

under this act, and by said new board shall be filed for

record in the office of the clerk for the Circuit Court for

Worcester County, and upon failure so to pay over and

deliver, the commissioners herein named may sue for and

recover the same, and it shall be and is hereby made the

duty of the State's Attorney for Worcester County, when-

ever informed by the board of commissioners created under

this act of the failure of said old commissioners to pay over

and deliver the moneys and property aforesaid, to forthwith

institute suit in the name of the State, for the use of the

said commissioners, created under this act, in the Circuit

Court for Worcester County, and that it shall be the duty

of said Circuit Court to enter up judgment in said suit

against the surviving commissioners, aforesaid, of the old

board, for such sum of money as may be found due without

stay of execution, and in case the said State's Attorney

shall, by execution or otherwise, collect such judgment, he