LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1843

public officers, distinguishing those to each class of officers
separately; the holding of the courts, and all charges com-
ing under that head; specifying how much thereof on
account of jurors; and also how much on account of wit-
nesses payable by the county; the support of the prison and
all charges connected therewith or relating to the prisoners,
for the keeping of the court house, and the expenditures on
account of the offices held therein, the support of the alms
house and its inmates, with a statement of how much allowed
to its officers; allowance to indigent out pensioners', the
holding of elections; repairs and erection of bridges;
repairs of the public roads; the opening; of new roads desi-
gnating the several sums allowed to individuals for lands over
which roads shall have been laid out, the amount paid to or
levied (or each keeper of the ferries in said county, with
such other items as the said commissioners of the tax may
judge will have a tendency to convey general information
concerning the various transactions of the year.

chap. 356.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the
alms-house, shall furnish the said commissioners of the tax
of the county, with a general statement of all the disburse-
ments and expenditures of said institution, so as to enable
the commissioners of the tax to give a full statement of its

Trustees to
furnish com-
missioners
with annual
statement.

receipts and expenditures, at the time specified in this act.
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the second section of the
act passed January sixth, eighteen hundred and three, chap-
ter eighty one, so far as it relates to said county, be and the
same is hereby repealed.

Repealed.

CHAPTER 366.

An act relating to the duties of the commissioned officers of
the militia of the State.

Passed March
9, 1844.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if any commissioned officer of the militia of this
State, shall take the oath or affirmation as required by the
existing laws regulating the militia of this State, and also
if any officer as aforesaid, shall make report to the Adjutant
General, at any time within three years from the passage
of this act, it shall be deemed and taken as a sufficient
compliance with the existing laws, to exempt such officer
or officers from being stricken from the rolls, any other law
to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Commission-
erf officers to
take oath.