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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

law requiring him to enforce the payment of same

they shall receive the said list so returned and re-

Release sure-

lease the said Treasurer and the sureties on his

ties.

bond from all liability on account of the amount so

returned by him, and place the said taxes so returned

in the hands of the Treasurer of said county, to be

collected and accounted for by him as other taxes

placed in his hands for collection.

In force.

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

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 13, 1878.

CHAPTER 74.

AN ACT to repeal sections one and nine of article

seventy-three, Code I, Public General Laws, title

" Penitentiary," as re-enacted by the acts of eigh-

teen hundred and sixty-eight, chapter ninety-seven,

and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That sections one and nine of article

seventy-three of the Code of Public General Laws,

Repealed and
re-enacted

title "Penitentiary," as re-enacted by the act of eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-eight, chapter ninety-seven,

be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted

so as to read as follows :

SEC. 1. The Governor, by and with the advice and

Governor
shall appoint
Penitentiary

consent of the Senate, shall bi-ennially appoint di-
rectors of the Maryland Penitentiary ; he shall ap-

Directors

point during the present session of the General As-

sembly six directors, two of whom shall be appointed

for two years, two shall be appointed for four years,

and two shall be appointed for six years ; and the

Designate

Governor shall designate the respective terms of said

terms.

appointees ; they shall hold office until their succes-

sors are appointed and qualify, and may be removed

as provided for in this article. As the terms desig-

Fill them for

nated above shall expire, the Governor shall fill

six years.

them for six years each.