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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

re-enacted by the act of eighteen hundred and ninety-two;
chapter six hundred and sixty, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 129. The clerk of the County Commissioners of

Compensa-
tion ot
clerk.

Queen Anne's county shall receive annually as a compensation
for his services, such sum as County Commissioners may deem
proper, not exceeding eight hundred dollars; and said clerk

May adminis
ter oaths.

is empowered to administer an oath or affirmation to any
account to any person presenting a claim to the commissioners
against the county, and he shall be allowed to charge such
persons the sum of ten cents for every such oath or affirmation
so administered.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6th, 1894.

CHAPTER 459.

AN ACT to repeal Section 43 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, Article 77, title " Public Education," sub-title
"Schools," so far as the same applies to "Allegany County,"
and to add a new section to Article one of the Code of Pub-
lic Local Laws, title "Allegany County," to be sub-titled
and sectioned with a proper regard to its location in said
Article one.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Repeal.

Maryland, That section 43 of article 77 of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Public Education," sub-title "Schools,"
so far as the same applies to Allegany county, be and the same
is hereby repealed; and that a new section be and the same is

New section.

hereby added to article one of the Code of Public Local Laws,
title "Allegany County," to be sub titled and numbered with
a proper regard to its location in said article one, and to read
as follows :

Grading
schools

SEC. — . Whenever the number of children attending any
school in Allegany county, in any school district thereof, is
greater than one hundred, the board of county school com-
missioners may, with the consent of the board of district school