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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 110.

Passed March
6, 1862.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled, a further
supplement to the act passed at January session
eighteen hundred and sixty, chapter one hun-
dred and ninety-six, changing the Commis-
sioners appointed by the act of eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-eight, chapter one hundred and
seventy-eight, for clearing out Pocomoke River.

Commission-
ers — powers
conferred, &c.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Zadok P. Henry, Senior, James
Whaley, John E. M. Marshall, Joseph Donaway,
and Littleton R. Truitt, be and they are hereby
appointed Commissioners, in the place of those
mentioned in the act of eighteen hundred and six-
ty, chapter one hundred and ninety-six, and that
the said Commissioners hereby appointed, or a ma-
jority of them have full power and authority to
expend all money which has been or may be
raised under and in virtue of the said act, in
carrying out the original design of the said act of
eighteen hundred and forty, chapter two hundred
and fifteen.

Commission-
ers may de-
mand and re-
ceive money,
&c., belonging
to the commis-
sion.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the Commis-
sioners now acting as aforesaid, by virtue of their
appointment under the act of eighteen hundred
and sixty, chapter one hundred and ninety-six,
shall pay and deliver over, on demand, to the
Commissioners named in the preceding section,
all money and property in their hands, as Com-
missioners, and upon failure thereof, the Commis-
sioners herein named may sue for and recover the
same.

Vacancy in
Board of Com-
missioners —
how filled.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That if any of the
Commissioners herein named, shall die, resign, or
refuse to act, or remove from Worcester county,
the remaining Commissioners shall appoint a Com-
missioner in his place, so as to keep up the num-
ber of five Commissioners, and the said Commis-
sioners so appointed, or their successors, shall
have and exercise all the powers conferred by this
act.

In force.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.