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or (Parsons Creek), sixth or (Hoopers Island), and
ninth or (Church Creek) election districts ; and com-
missioner district number five, shall be composed of
the fifth or (Lakes), and tenth or (Straits) election
districts of said county.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That at the next gen-
eral election for county officers in Dorchester county, there shall be five county commissioners elected for	Commission- ers to be elect-
said county, one of whom shall have charge of each	ed
commissioner district, whose duties shall be as are
now and may herein and hereinafter be prescribed
by law.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the Governor of
Maryland, immediately upon the passage of this act,
appoint a treasurer for said county, who shall be	Appoint
styled the Treasurer of Dorchester county, and shall	treasurer.
hold his office from, the first Monday in May, eighteen
hundred and seventy-eight, to the first Monday of May, eighteen hundred and eighty, and until his
successor is duly appointed and qualified, and whose
duty it shall be to receive and disburse all moneys	Disburse
levied and collected for county purposes, according	moneys lev-
to the order of the County Commissioners of said	ied.
county, and to receive from the several collectors
for said county and pay over to the Treasurer of
Maryland, as hereinafter directed, all moneys levied
and collected for the said State in said county ; he
shall keep a separate account of both State and	Keep separ-
county levies with each collector, and shall make	ate accounts.
and keep a duplicate of each and every receipt
given for all public moneys received by him; he
shall make quarterly returns of the amounts of
moneys received by him to the County Commission-
ers of said county, and monthly returns to the Comp-
troller of the Treasury respectively ; he shall also serve and act as clerk to said County Commissioners,	Act as clerk.
and as such it shall be his duty to record the pro-
ceedings of the Board of County Commissioners, and
to perform all such other duties as are now or may
hereinafter be prescribed by law for the clerk of said
board ; he shall keep the office of said commissioners	Hours of
open from nine o'clock A. M. until three o'clock	opening.
P. M. each week day ; he shall have charge of all
records, books, &c., of said commissioner's office, and
shall not allow any of them to be removed or taken