FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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fair per diem to judges and clerks to be scaled according to

their discretion, according to value of the office, and a full

statement of the amount collected, and also expended with

the manner thereof, shall immediately after the primary

election be published in one or more of the democratic news-

papers of the county. If ballot clerks are used for the

information and instruction of the blind, sick or illiterate,

they shall be selected for their intelligence, honesty and

fairness and shall be sworn not to divulge anything that

comes to their knowledge, while acting in their official

capacity, and to act fairly and impartially in the discharge

of their duties, and the judges of election are empowered to

commission one or more persons to assist the constable in

preserving order at the polls on the day of the election.

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

Effective

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 509.

AN ACT to provide for the assignment and transfer of cer-

tain shares of the capital stock of the Easton National

Bank of Maryland, standing upon the books of said bank

in the name of the Orphans' Court of Caroline County, or

the judges thereof, and certain other shares of the capital

stock of the National Mechanics of Baltimore standing on

the books of said bank in the name of the said Orphans'

Court or the judges thereof, and certain other bank stock

of the Commercial and Farmers' National Bank of Balti-

more, standing on the books of said bank, in the name of

John Boone et al., or of the said Orphans' Court or the

judges thereof, to the " Board of County School Commis-

sioners for Caroline County."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the -General Assembly of

Maryland, That the Orphans' Court for Caroline County,

Maryland, or the present judges thereof, be, and they hereby
are authorized, empowered and directed to assign and

Power to
transfer

transfer to the "Board of School Commissioners of Caroline

stock.

County," the one hundred and forty -eight shares of the cap-

ital stock of said bank, of the par value of twenty-five dol-

lars each, standing on the books of said bank in the name

of said Orphans' Court, or the judges thereof and all incre-

ments thereof, and to do and perform all necessary, proper