1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 259.

number of votes given in their respective districts for

a member, or members, of the levy court, as the case

may require, and the judges of the several election
districts of said county, when met at the court house
of said county, to ascertain and certify the election of
delegates aforesaid, shall ascertain the number of votes
given as aforesaid for candidates for the levy court
aforesaid, and by a certificate to be filed in the office
of the clerk of the county court of the county afore-
said, and which shall be by said clerk recorded, certify
in form similar to the. certificate of the election of dele-
gates, that the six persons by name, who they shall
ascertain, received the greatest number of votes in said
county, are. duly elected members of the levy court of
Calvert county to serve for the period of two years
from the date of their said election, and in the event of
a tie between two or more persons, the same shall, be
decided by ballot at the first regular meeting of said
levy court.

Case of vacancy.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That if any member of
the said levy court shall die. resign, refuse or neglect
to qualify within twenty days, as member of the levy
court aforesaid under this act, or shall remove from

which he shall have been elected, the residue of the
said members of the levy court shall appoint a person
as is herein before provided in case of an original elec-
tion, to fill his place until the next election for mem-
bers of the levy court aforesaid.

To qualify.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the members of the
levy court so elected or appointed, shall, before they
enter upon the discharge of their duties, qualify in such
manner and form as the members of the commissioners'
court qualify.

Rights, powers and
duties of commis-

sioners transferred
to Levy court.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That when and as soon
as the members of the levy court herein appointed, or
those hereafter to be elected, shall qualify as aforesaid,
all the powers, rights and privileges lawfully exercis-
ed by, and all property, estate and effects vested in the
commissioners' court of Calvert county, shall be trans-
ferred to, and vested in the levy court of said county,
who, or any three of them, shall thereafter exercise all
the powers, rights and privileges, and shall perform