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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 418.

AN ACT to repeal sections sixty-one and sixty-four of arti-

cle sixteen of the Code of Public Local Laws, title " Mont-

gomery County," sub-title " County Commissioners," and

sections one hundred and twenty-four, one hundred and

twenty-five and one hundred and twenty-six of said arti-

cle sixteen, sub-title " Jurors, State's Witnesses, Crier

and Bailiffs," and sections two hundred and eighteen,

and two hundred and nineteen of said article sixteen, sub-

title "Taxes," and to re-enact the same with amend-

ments, and to add a new section to said article sixteen,

to be numbered two hundred and twenty.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That sections sixty-one and sixty -four of article

sixteen of the Code of Public Local Laws, title " Mont-

Repealed

gomery County," sub-title " County Commissioners," and

and
re-enacted

sections one hundred and twenty-four, one hundred and

twenty-five, and one hundred and twenty -six of said article

sixteen, sub-title "Jurors, State's Witnesses, Crier and

Bailiffs," and sections two hundred and eighteen and two

hundred and nineteen of said article sixteen, sub-title

"Taxes," be and the same are hereby repealed and re-en-

acted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 61. There shall he five county commissioners for

Montgomery County, one of whom shall be a resident of

each of the five collection districts of said county as the

County

same are now established, and whose terms of service shall

Commis-
sioners of

be as follows : At the general election to be held on the

Mont-

Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, in the year

gomery
County

eighteen hundred and ninety-three, the qualified voters of

Montgomery County shall elect five county commissioners,

and the returns thereof shall be transmitted to the Gover-

nor as provided in the general election laws of this State,

and when the Governor shall have ascertained the names of

the five persons who shall have been elected at said elec-

tion, he shall write the names of said persons on slips of

paper and draw therefrom, by lot, the names of two per-

sons whose terms of service shall be two years from the

date of their election and until their successors shall be

elected and qualified, and the remaining three persons so

elected shall serve for the term of four years and until their

successors shall be elected and qualified, and thereafter, as

their respective terms expire, the county commissioners

shall be elected for the term of four years ; and the Gov-