JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1827,

they, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by
the name, style and title of the commissioners of Harford coun-
ty,and by that name, shall have continued and perpetual succes-
sion, and be capable in law of suing and being sued, of making
and using a corporate seal, and of altering the same; of taking,
holding, selling and conveying all kinds of estates, property
and effects, and of doing all such acts as shall be necessary
to the exercise of all powers which are or shall be vested in
them by this act, or by any other act of assembly, as fully and
effectually as corporate bodies may or can lawfully and right-
fully do.

CHAP. 81

Sec. 4- And be it enacted, That when and as soon as the
commissioners to be elected or appointed as aforesaid, shall
have taken and subscribed the oath or affirmation herein be-
fore described, all the power, rights and privileges lawfully
exercised by, and all property, estate and effects vested in the
justices of the levy court of Harford county, shall be trans-
fered to, and vested in the commissioners for Harford coun-
ty, who, or any three of them, shall thereafter exercise all the
said powers, rights and privileges, and shall perform all the
duties required to be performed by the said justices of the

Powers of the levy

court conferred up
on the comminssin0

ers of tax

levy court, for Harford county, and no appointment of jus-
tices of the levy court for Harford county, shall thereafter
be made, and all the powers lawfully exercised by, or vested

Levy Court abol-

ished

in the commissioners of the tax for Harford county, and

all the duties required by law, to be performed by them, shall
be vested in, and exercised and performed by the said com-
missioners for Harford county, after they shall have become
qualified as aforesaid.

Appointmen of

Clerk

SEC. 5. And be it enacted That the commissioners for
Harford county, shall at their annual meetings appoint a well
qualified, (it and proper person, a resident of said county, to
act and serve as clerk to the said commissioners, who shall
transact all the business, and discharge all the duties now ap-
pertaining to the several and respective officers of clerk of
the levy court and commissioners of the tax, in the same man-
ner as the clerk of Harford county court ond the clerk of the
commissioners of the tax for said county, are now by law se-
verally authorised and required to transact the same; and the

Appointment of

Clerk

person so appointed, shall, before he enters upon the duties
of his office, execute a bond to the state, of Maryland, to be
approved of by the said commissioners, in the penalty of one
thousand dollars, conditioned for the true and faithful per-
formance of the several and respective duties hereby impos-
ed, which bond shall be recorded in the clerk's office oi the
county court of said county, and a copy thereof, under the
seal of said court, shall De as sufficient evidence as the origi-
nal would be, if produced and proved, and the said clerk,

Oath

when appointed, shall also take and subscribe the following
oath or affirmation, as the case may be, to wit: I. A. B, do
swear or affirm, that as clerk to the commissioners of Harford
county, I will honestly and faithfully, to the best of my skill
and judgment, execute the duties oi said office, without favor,
affection or prejudice, so help me God! which oath or affirma-

Oath