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the purchases, contracts and arrangements of the alms-

house.

SEC. 8. The said trustees shall be entitled to two

dollars a day for every day they shall attend to their

Compensation.

said duties, not exceeding one day in one month.

SEC. 11. The said trustees shall purchase sufficient

beds, bedding, working tools, kitchen utensils, cows,

horses and all other necessaries for said almshouse,

from time to time; shall keep a regular account thereof,

and shall, under a penalty of fifty dollars each, render

Purchase all

the same, with the vouchers therefor, to the county

necessaries.

commissioners at their first meeting in the month of

May, in each year; and the said accounts shall be

passed and settled by the said commissioners previous

to making the appointment of trustees for the ensuing

year.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 167.

AN ACT to repeal chapter one hundred and fifty-six

of the acts passed at the January session of eigh-

teen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled " An act

relating to Justices of the Peace in and for Wash-

ington and Talbot counties."

SECTION 1. Be it, enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That chapter one hundred and fifty-

six of the acts passed at the January session of eigh-

teen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled " An act

Repealed.

relating to justices of the peace in and for Washington

and Talbot counties," be and the same is hereby

repealed.

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

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.