JOHN FRANCIS MERCER, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1801.

thereafter, shall ascertain the amount of the money collected in their county from the tax herein
before imposed, by a certificate from the clerk of their county, and thereupon the said justices,
after dedudting the sum so paid by their clerk, shall lay such sum on their county as will make up
the deficiency of the sum payable by their county as aforesaid, towards the annual allowance to
the chief justice of their district, and a commission of six per cent, for collection ; and if there
shall be any surplus of the money paid into the treasury by the clerk of any county, beyond what
will pay the quota of such county, the said surplus shall be applied to the use of the said county,
and the same shall be paid by the treasurer to the order of the justices of the levy court.

C H A P.
LXXIV.

XXII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the respective levy courts shall, sometime in the month of
May next, and in the same month in every year for ever thereafter, appoint the judges of the se-
veral elections to be held within this state, and that the judges so appointed shall have the same
power and authority, and subject to the same penalties, as the judges heretofore appointed by
the county courts; provided, that nothing herein contained shall extend to the cities of Balti-
more or Annapolis.

Courts to ap-
point judges,
&c.

XXIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the act to regulate elections as authorise the
several county courts to appoint judges of elections, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Part of an act
repealed.

XXIV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerk of every county shall yearly, on or before the
first day of April, certify under his hand and seal of office, the amount of the assessable pro-
perty in his county, and lodge one certificate thereof with the clerks of each county in his dis-
trict, under the penalty of fifty dollars.

Clerk to certi-
fy, &c.

XXV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy courts for the several counties of this state be
and they are hereby directed to transmit to the treasurer of their respective shores a certificate of
the amount levied for the allowance to the chief justice of their district, and also a copy of the
collector's bond appointed to collect the same, and also the amount put into each collector's hands
for collection, where there are more than one collector appointed in any one county to collect the
same.

Courts to
transmit a cer-
tificate, &c.

XXVI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all monies levied by the justices of the levy court in the
several counties of this state towards paying the salaries of the said chief justices, shall hereafter
be paid by the sheriffs or collectors collecting the same to the treasurer of their respective shore ;
and if any collector or clerk shall not pay the money intrusted to his collection by virtue of this act
to the treasurer of his respective shore within thirty days after the same shall become due, it shall
be lawful for the said treasurer to file an attested copy of such collector's bond, or a proved account
of the sum due from such clerk, in the general court of the eastern and western shore respective-
ly, and the clerk of the general court shall immediately thereupon issue a capias ad respondendum
against such collector and securities,- or against such clerk, returnable to the next succeeding
court, and judgment or trial shall be had at the first term, without any imparlance or delay, and
thereupon execution shall issue against such collector and his securities, and against such clerk, for
such sum as by the judgment of the court shall appear to be due.

Monies, t®
whom to be
paid, &c.

XXVII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerks of the respective county courts shall, under the
penalty of fifty dollars for every omission or neglect, in the month of November yearly, during
the continuance of this act, make out and transcribe two fair copies of the levy list allowed by the
justices of the respective levy courts against the said counties, containing the several charges and
suras levied and assessed on their respective counties, one copy whereof shall be transmitted to
the clerk of the senate, and the other copy thereof to the clerk of the house of delegates, for the
information of the general assembly.

Clerks to make
out copies, &c

XXVIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each associate justice, appointed and commissioned in vir-
tue of this act, shall receive, as a compensation for his services, the sum of four dollars for every
day he shall attend the duty of his office, and the said allowance shall be assessed in the assessment
of his county.

XXIX. AND, whereas by divers acts of assembly the justices of the county courts are autho-
rised and enjoined to do sundry matters and things at the county courts to be held in certain

Compensation
to each associ-
ate.

months in the said acts mentioned, and in many instances there is an alteration of the time of hold-
ing the said county courts by this act, BE IT ENACTED, That in all cases where the courts are '
S by

Justices to de
certain mat-
ters, &c.