66 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

	County Commissioners of Frederick County, or any one of them, in any manner concerning my action in the selection of any person to be overseer or keeper of the almshouse of Fred- erick county, or in the selection of anys officer or employe of said almshonse, so help me God."
Power of appoint- ment.	10. They shall within one month after their appointment and qualification, appoint some suitable person to be overseer or keeper of the almshouse and manager of the farm con- nected therewith, and they shall appoint such other and so many officers any employes as they may deem requisite, and fix and establish their compensations. 11. They may remove each overseer or keeper, and any
Power of . removal.	other officer or employe, at their discretion, and appoint another or others in his or their place at any time, whenever in their judgment the interests of the county and the welfare of the inmates of said almshouse shall require.
Effective.	SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved February 17, 1898. CHAPTER 6. AN ACT to sanction an agreement between the Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick, a body corporate, and Willard C. Keller, his associates and assigns, wherein it is agreed that a certain strip of land shall not be taken into the taxable limits of Frederick, and subjected to municipal taxation for the period of ten years from and after the twenty-ninth day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and when, if ever taken in, that said corporation will pur- chase a certain street at not less than the cost thereof, and to grant the legislative assent to such contract. WHEREAS, A certain Willard C. Keller has proposed and agreed to purchase a strip of land 240 feet wide and 900 feet deep, unimproved, and not within the taxable limits of Fred-
Preamble.	erick, but adjacent thereto, and to greatly improve the same by laying it out in building lots, and with his associates and assigns to build houses thereon and construct a private road or street at considerable expense, and make other improvements ; and WHEREAS, The Mayor and Aldermen of Frederick have agreed with said Willard C. Keller, his associates and assigns,