WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 390.

AN ACT to repeal chapter one hundred and

twenty-seven of the acts passed at the January

session, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled

" An act to repeal section sixteen of article

thirty-eight, Code of Public General Laws," so

far as the same relates to Dorchester county,

and to add an additional section to article ten,

Code of Public Local Laws, entitled " Dorches-

ter county," sub-title " Crier," and to re-enact

the same with amendments so as to read as

follows :

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That chapter one hundred and twen-

ty-seven of the acts passed at the January session,

eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled " A.n act to

repeal section sixteen of article thirty-eight, Code
of Public General Laws," so far as the same

Repealed and
to enacted.

relates to Dorchester county, and to add an addi-

tional section to article ten, Code of Public Local

Laws, entitled " Dorchester county," sub-title

" Crier," be and the same is hereby repealed and

re-enacted with amendments so as to read as

follows :

SECTION ... The crier of the Circuit Court for

Dorchester county shall be entitled to and receive

a per diem of three dollars for each and every day

Per diem of
crier.

he shall be employed as such, which shall be in

full and in lieu of all other allowances now author-

ized by law; and the commissioners of Dorchester

county are authorized and directed, at their next

meeting for laying the county levy, and annually

thereafter, to levy for the use of the crier of said

court, on the assessable property of said county,

such sum or sums of money as they shall deem

Levy on as-
sessable prop-

sufficient to pay the per diem of the crier of said

erty.

court for both the general and equity terms there-

of; and upon presentation to said county commis-

sioners of the certificates of the clerk of said court

certifying the number of days in which he has

been engaged at each term of said court, the