E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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CHAPTER 239.
AN ACT to ascertain and define the powers and duties
of
County Commissioners.
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Passed May
21, 1853.
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SECTION 1. Be
it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the county commissioners of each
county in this State, are hereby constituted and declared
to be a corporation and body politic, and shall have
power to appoint judges of elections, collectors of taxes,
trustees of the poor, a clerk to their board and all other
officers, agents and servants, required for county purposes,
not otherwise provided for by law, or by the constitution;
they shall have charge of and control over
the property owned by the county, and over county
roads and bridges.
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Declared to
be a body
politic.
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SEC. 2. And
be it enacted, That it shall be their
duty to levy all needful taxes on the assessable property
within the county, liable to taxation, and to provide for
collecting the same, which levy may be made in whole
or in part by estimate, and they shall provide for the
support of the courts, compensate jurors and county
witnesses, and pay and discharge all claims on or against
the county which have been expressly or impliedly authorised
by law.
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Duty of commissioners.
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SEC. 3. And
be it enacted, That the county commissioners
shall have all other powers, and perform all
other duties hereafter granted or prescribed by law;
Provided, such powers and duties shall be uniform
throughout the State, and are not contrary to the constitution.
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To perform
all duties prescribed
by law.
Proviso.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted,
That the county commissioners
shall meet in their respective counties within
sixty days after their election, and qualify as such, and
thereafter meet at least once a quarter, and as much
oftener as the necessities of the county may in their
judgment require; Provided, however, that the meeting
to make the annual levy of taxes shall be held previous
to the first day of July in each and every year.
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Meetings.
Proviso.
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted,
That this act shall take
effect from and after the day preceding the first Wednesday
in November next.
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To take effect.
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