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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Anne Arundel County ; and thereafter the number of

County Commissioners for said county shall be three; said

commissioners shall meet at their office in the court house

at Annapolis for the transaction of the duties of their office

at least one day in each week, and on such other days as

they may deem necessary.

112 A. The five county commissioners elected at the general

Terms of
Commis-

election on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of

sioners
elected in

November eighteen hundred and ninety-one shall hold their

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office for two years from the time of their election or until

their successors are elected and qualified and shall receive

the compensation now provided by law.

112. B. The three county commissioners elected at the

Terms of
those to be

general election in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-

elected in

three shall severally hold office for the terms of six, four

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and two years respectively from the date of their election ;

and the Governor so soon, as he conveniently may after

receiving the official returns of said election, shall deter-

mine which pf said three commissioners shall hold his

office for the term of six years, which for the term of four

years and which for the term of two years, and in con-

formity to said determination issue to them their commis-

sions for their several terms thereafter beginning at the

general election on the Tuesday next after the first Monday

of November in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five

and at every general election on the same day in every

second year one county commissioner for said county shall

be elected for the term of six years from the date of his

election, who shall be ineligible to succeed himself or to

hold the office of County Commissioner for Anne Arundel

County for two years from the expiration of his term of

office ; provided that no two commissioners shall be from

one and the same district at one and the same time. After

the number of county commissioners has been reduced to

three, in case of a vacancy occurring in any one of said

offices by death, resignation or otherwise, the Governor

shall appoint a proper person to fill such vacancy until the

next general election, and if the term of the commissioner

whose term of office shall have become vacant as aforesaid,

be not then completed a commissioner shall be elected to

serve only until the expiration of the term for which the

original incumbent was elected.

Approved April 7th, 1892.