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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 454.

AN ACT to repeal sections thirty-five, thirty-six,

thirty-eight and thirty-nine of article nine of the

Code of Public Local Laws, title "Charles County,"

sub-title " County Commissioners," and sections

forty-eight and forty-nine of the same article,

sub-title "Jurors," and to re-enact the same with

amendments, to fix and provide for the pay of

jurors, witnesses, bailiffs, messengers and criers of

the Circuit Court for Charles county, to appoint

an officer to disburse the same and to authorize

the County Commissioners of Charles county to

borrow not exceeding five thousand dollars to pay

arrearages for expenses already incurred by the

attendance of jurors, State's witnesses, bailiffs,

messengers and criers at the Circuit Court for

said county, and to pay said expenses for the

balance of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-

two.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That sections thirty-five, thirty-

six, thirty -eight and thirty-nine of article nine of

the Code of Public Local Laws, title " Charles

Repealed and
re-enacted.

county," sub-title "County Commissioners," and

sections forty-eight and forty-nine of the same article,

sub-title "Jurors " be and the same are hereby re-

pealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to

read as follows :

SECTION 35. They shall annually appoint a clerk,

who, in addition to his other duties, shall act as treas-

urer of said county, as hereinafter provided in sec-

Appoint clerk.

tions thirty-six, thirty-eight and thirty-nine of this

article, and shall be liable to removal by the said

commissioners, who shall fill any vacancy in the said

office at their next meeting thereafter, or as soon as

practicable.

SECTION 36. The said clerk and treasurer shall

give bond to the State of Maryland, to be approved

Give bond.

by the judges of the Circuit Court for Charles

county, or a majority of said judges, during recess,