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Commissioners and shall remain the property of said County
Commissioners.

SEC. 95. In case of a vacancy in said office of county clerk
in consequence of death, resignation, removal, disqualification
or failure to properly qualify, the Governor shall fill said va-
cancy as soon thereafter as practicable.

Sec. 96. The county clerk shall receive for his services an
annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars and no more, payable
in equal monthly instalments by the County Commissioners
of Washington County, and the said County Commissioners
are hereby authorized and required to levy the needful taxes
on the assessable property within the county liable to taxation
as shall be sufficient to pay said salary.

Sec. 97. The county clerk shall at all reasonable times per-
mit any taxpayer of the county to examine and make copies of
any books, papers, records and accounts pertaining to the busi-
ness of the County Commissioners.

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

Approved April 8, 1910.

CHAPTER 470.

AN ACT to repeal Section 1 of Chapter 170 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January Ses-
sion of 1834, and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 1 of Chapter 170 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, passed at the January Session of
1834, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That William D. Bell, William Holliday, Daniel Carver,
Roberdeau Annan, William Johnson, John W. Kennedy, Jacob
Swope, Jacob Bachelder, William Weber, Alexander Arm-
strong, Peter Swartzwelder, Victor Thompson, William S.
Brown and such other persons as are now or hereafter may
become members of the Antietam Fire Company, shall be and
they are hereby declared to be one community, corporation and
body politic forever hereafter, by the name and style of The
Antietam Fire Company, the object of which company is here-
by declared to be the protection of the property of the citizens
of Hagerstown from destruction by fire, for which purpose they