FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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and the sheriff, and Register of Wills thereof, who shall

immediately certify to the same and the result thereof in

writing under their hands and seals in duplicate one of said

duplicates to be filed and recorded in the clerk's office of the

said county and the other to be transmitted to the Secretary

of the State, unless said three commissioners can settle and

determine the same among themselves within the period of

thirty days from the date that this law shall go into effect,

in which event they shall certify to the same in writing

under their hands and seals in duplicate, one of which shall

be filed with the clerk of said county as aforesaid, and the

other transmitted to the Secretary of the State, whereupon

commission shall be issued in accordance with said allot-

ment of terms by lot or agreement as aforesaid.

SEC. 2. And be if enacted, That at the expiration of the

two year term as hereinbefore provided, at the general elec-

tion that will then come, a county commissioner to succeed

the county commissioner whose term will then expire, shall

Terms

be elected to serve for the term of six years or until his

hereafter.

successor shall have been elected and qualified, and in the

expiration of the four year term, at the general election that

will ensue a county commissioner to succeed the county

commissioner whose term will then expire, shall be elected

to serve for the term of four years or until his successor

shall have been elected and qualified ; and at the expiration

of the six year term at the general election that will then

ensue a county commissioner to succeed the county com-

missioner whose term will then expire, shall be elected to

serve for the term of two years or until his successor shall

have been elected and qualified, and in this order and

according to this plan the successors to the office of county

commissioners shall be kept up and perpetual thereafter.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That no County Commissioner

for Queen Anne's County shall be eligible to said office for

more than two consecutive terms and that in case of the

Not
eligible.

decease, removal or resignation, of any county commis-

sioner during, the term of his service, the Governor shall

have power to fill the vacancy until the next general

election when a county commissioner to fill said uuexpired

term shall be elected.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Effective.

Approved April 7th, 1892.