588.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

more than six months after the death of said Samuel

Vickers, did do and perform said work, under an

agreement with said successor that he was to receive

the proceeds arising from same to compensate there-

for, and when it was believed that the estate of said

Samuel Vickers was sufficient to pay therefor ; and

Whereas it afterwards appearing that said Samuel

Vickers left no estate from which payment therefor

Preamble.

could be had or made, and said Robert Goldsborough

has never been compensated for said work, and had

it not been done by him it would necessarily have

been done at the expense of the county at some

subsequent time ; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of

Commission-

said county be and they are hereby authorized, in

ers to levy.

their discretion, to levy upon the assessable property

of said county a sum sufficient to pay said Robert

Goldsborough for said work so performed as afore-

said by him, and as the same will appear from a

probated account therefor, which he is hereby re-

quired to furnish said commissioners, not to exceed

the sum of ninety dollars.

Approved April 1, 1878.

CHAPTER 381.

AN ACT to authorize the Register of Wills for

Queen Anne's county to do and perform certain

work left unfinished by a former Register of Wills

of said county.

Whereas a former Register of Wills for Queen

Preamble.

Anne's county has departed this life, leaving certain
work unfinished and incomplete, and leaving no estate

out of which payment for the performance of said

work could be had or made ; and