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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

shall have the same powers and qualifications, be

subject to the same duties and restrictions, and also

be elected at the times and in the manner set forth

in the second section as amended.

SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That section two (2) of

the aforesaid act and chapter be and the same is

hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as fol-

lows : That the aforesaid trustees shall be elected

Repealed and
re-enacted.

on the first Saturday in April in each and every

year, by the qualified voters of Manchester, Carroll

county; and any vacancy occurring in such board

of trustees by death, resignation or other cause, shall

be filled by the remaining trustees, or a quorum of

them.

SEC. 5. Be it enacted. That section six (6) of the

How amended.

aforesaid act and chapter be amended by striking

out five and inserting three.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 403

AN ACT to repeal section thirty-one, article

eighty-eight, of the Code of Public General

Laws, relating to the execution of death war-

rants by sheriffs, and to re-enact the same with

amendments.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That section thirty-one, article eighty-eight,

Repealed and

of the Code of Public General Laws, be and the

re-enacted.

same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to

read as follows :

SECTION 31. The sheriff shall execute the sen-

tence of death pronounced against any criminal by

the judgment of any court of this State, whenever

he is authorized to do so by the warrant of the Gov-

Sheriff exe-

ernor, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to

cute sentence.

execute every such sentence of death in as private

a manner as possible, and to exclude from the

view thereof all persons except his deputies, the

spiritual advisers of the criminal, the legal coun-

sel who defended him, his or her relatives, not