FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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ernor shall state in the commission to be issued to said

county commissioners elected at the said elelection to be

held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in Novem-

ber in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, the term

for which the said commissioners shall respectively serve.

If, of the five persons having the highest number of votes,

two or more shall be residents of the same collection dis-

trict, the person in said district having the highest num-

ber of votes shall be declared elected, and the persons in

the respective districts having the highest number of votes

shall constitute the board of county commissioners.

64. The clerk of said county commissioners shall receive

Compensa-

such compensation and such allowances for office expenses

tion of
clerk.

as said county commissioners shall from time to time

determine, and his duties shall be as follows :

A. He shall perform all the duties now by law required

to be performed by said clerk, or which may be required of

Duties.

him by any future law or by any order of the county com-

missioners.

B. He shall have charge of all records, books, and so

forth, belonging to the office of the county commissioners,

Have
charge of

and shall not allow any of them to be removed or taken

records, &c.

from said office, except in obedience to a summons or order

of a court of law or equity of this State, and shall deliver

the same to his successor,

C. He shall receive and deliver, either in person or

through the collectors of taxes, all money levied and col-

Receive

lected for county purposes, according to the order of the

money.

county commissioners of said county.

D. He shall monthly, immediately after his monthly set-

tlements with the several collectors of taxes of said county,

Pay to

as provided for in section 219 of this article, pay over to the

Comp-
troller.

Comptroller of the Treasurer of Maryland, all money levied

and collected for said State in said county.

E. He shall keep a separate account of both State and

county levies with each collector of taxes in said county,

Keep sep-

and shall make out and preserve a duplicate of each and

arate
accounts.

every receipt given by him for all public money received by

by him, and shall state in said receipts what amount of the

public dues is received in cash, and what amount in county

orders ; and the sums received by him on account of the

county levy shall be disbursed exclusively for county pur-

poses, and any person for whose use a levy is made shall be

entitled to receive the same in full on the first day of Janu-

ary next succeeding the date of such levy provided how-