JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1834.

CHAPTER 280

CHAP 280.

A supplement to the act entitled an act to provide for electing
Commisioners for Cecil County, by districts, and prescrib-
ing their duties and powers, and repealing an act and its
supplements therein mentioned

Passed Mar. 11, 1835

WHEREAS, it is provided by the act to which this is a
supplement, that the clerk of the commissioners of Cecil
county, shall be entitled to receive as compensation for his
services, such sum annually as the said commissioners may
direct not exceeding the sum of three hundred dollars, and
whereas it was provided by the laws in force before the pas
sage of this act, to which this is a supolement, that all con-
stables bonds, supervisors bonds, or other instruments of
writing, appertaining to or immediately connected with the
office of the said commissioners, should be recorded in the
office of the clerk of the commissioners, who should be en
titled to the same fees, which were allowed to the clerk of
the county, for the same services, which fees were to be
paid, over and above the annual salary allowed to the said
clerk, by the said commissioners, AND WHEREAS some
doubts have arisen, whether by the act to which this is a
supplement, the said commissioners have power to allow
their clerk, any fees for recording such bonds or other in
struments of writing, over and above the annual salary not
exceeding the sum of three hundred dollars, Therefore,

Preamble

Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the said commissioners of Cecil county, shall
allow to the clerk, whom they may appoint or have appoint-
ed, by virtue of this act to which this is a supplement, in
addition to such annual sum, provided to be allowed to him,
such fees for recording constable's bonds, supervisor's bonds,
and all other instruments of writing, formerly recorded in
the office of the clerk of the county, appertaining to, or
immediately connected with the office of said commission
ers, as were allowed to the clerk of the county for the
same services, to be levred, collected, and paid over as
other county charges are

Fee to be allowed

for recording

Sec 2 And be it enacted, That the commissioners of
Cecil county, shall allow to the representatives of John
Kean deceased, the late clerk of said commissioners, such
fees for recording such bonds, and other instruments of wrrt
ing during the term of his office, as were formerly allowed
to the clerk of the county for the said services, to be elvied,
collected, and paid as the other county charges are

To late clerk