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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 171.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the County

Commissioners of Cecil county to summon persons

before them.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the county commissioners of Cecil

Power to issue
summons.

county be and they are hereby authorized and em-
powered to issue a summons for any person, whose

appearance before them they shall deem necessary for

any purpose; and any person so summoned, and re-

fusing to appear or to be sworn, or to answer, shall be

liable to prosecution therefor, and upon conviction

before a justice of the peace shall be fined not exceed-

ing thirty dollars for each offence, said fine to be paid

into the county treasury to the credit of the public

school fund; and all summons issued under this act

Summons —

shall be returnable on the day named therein, and

when returned.

shall be directed to the sheriff of the county, who

shall receive the same fees, and be liable to the same

jaenalties, as are now received or incurred by said offi-

cers in the service of summons or citations issued by

the orphans' court.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the pay of wit-

nesses, for attendance before the county commissioners

Witnesses pay.

of Cecil county, shall be the same as for attendance

before the circuit court, and shall be regulated in the

same manner.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of

Inconsistencies

acts inconsistent with this act be and the same are

repealed.

hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.