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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

trict number fourteen as by law they are now au-

thorized respectively to appoint for the other election

districts of said county, and the County Commis-

sioners aforesaid shall do whatever else within the

scope of their power may be necessary to effect the

object of this bill.

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

In force.

effect from and after the first day of May, eighteen

hundred and seventy-eight.

Approved March 29, 1878.

CHAPTER 181.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of

Allegany county to exchange a certain portion of

the land belonging to said county, known as the

Alms House Farm, and to receive in exchange

therefor another piece of land from William T.

Mullen, and to receive and hold the said land so

exchanged.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

Commission-
ers authorized

of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of
Allegany county be and they are hereby authorized

and empowered to exchange a certain small portion

of the land belonging to said county, known as the

Alms House Farm, with William T. Mullen, for

other lands, to be by him deeded to them, and to re-

Receive and
hold the same

ceive and hold the same for the said county, for the

same uses and purposes as those under which the

original grant is held.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That in order to ena-

Proper deed.

ble the said County Commissioners to make a proper
deed for said lands, the president of said County

Commissioners be and he is hereby empowered for

and on behalf of all said commissioners to execute

and acknowledge said deed in the same manner and