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said William F. Eoeder on account of same in the
years eighteen hundred and eighty-two and eighteen
hundred and eighty-three, which payments have been
recommended by the comptroller and treasurer of the
state.

Approved April 8, 1884.

	Chapter 496.
	AN ACT to provide for an audit of the county finances
	of Dorchester county.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
	of Maryland, That the judges of the first judicial
	circuit of Maryland, in which is embraced Dorchester
	county, and in event of any change in said circuit the
	judge or judges presiding over the circuit court for
	said county be and they are hereby authorized and
	directed to appoint a special auditor for the circuit	Appoint aud
	court of said county, who shall be an expert book-	itor.
	keeper, whose duties shall be as hereinafter specified
	in this act; the first appointment shall be made im-
	mediately upon the passage of this act, and at the
	April term of said court, in the year eighteen hundred
	and eighty-six, and every second year thereafter, and
	the auditor so appointed to hold over until his suc-
	cessor be duly appointed and qualified as by this act
	provided; and in event of the death, resignation, re-
	moval from the county, or other disqualification of
	any auditor so appointed and qualified, it shall be the
	duty of said judges to supply the vacancy so caused at the next ensuing term of their said court by the ap-	Vacancy — how filled.
	pointment of a new auditor for the unexpired term of
	his predecessor.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the auditor when
	appointed as aforesaid, shall qualify by taking an oath
	before the clerk of said court, that he will obey the
	Constitution of the United States and of the state of
	Maryland, and the laws passed in pursuance thereof,	Take oath.
	and will execute the duties attached to his said office
	to the best of his ability fairly-and impartially, and with-
	out favor, partiality or prejudice; it shall be the duty of