WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

tion, to levy at their next annual levy on the assessable
property of said county, one half of the money awarded
by the commissioners so appointed, and pay the same over
to the persons entitled to the same, and the other half to
be levied as aforesaid at their annual levy in eighteen hun-
dred and forty-one, and paid over as aforesaid.

CHAP. 119.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners ap-
pointed by virtue of this act, shall before they proceed to
the discharge of their duty, make oath or affirmation be-
fore some justice of the peace for said county, that they will
without favor or prejudice, faithfully discharge their duty

Oath of office.

pointed by virtue of this act, shall be entitled to receive
two dollars per day, for each days service rendered, for
five days and no more, to be levied and as other county
charges are.

CHAPTER 119.

Compensation.

An act regulating the manner in which Constables Bonds
shall be taken in Cecil County, and for other purposes.

Passed Mar 20,
1840.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That from and after the passage of this act, the
bonds of all constables in Cecil county, shall be taken in
the penalty of two thousand dollars, and that in all cases
in which constables bonds have been taken in the penal
sum of two thousand dollars, since the passage of the act
of December session eighteen hundred and thirty-eight,
chapter two hundred and twenty-two, entitled an act to re-
peal an act to establish magistrates courts in the several
counties of this State, and to prescribe their jurisdiction;
passed at December session eighteen hundred and thirty-
five, chapter two hundred and one, together with all the sup-
plements thereto, so far as the same relates to Cecil coun-
ty, be and the same are hereby declared to be valid and ef-
fectual as if said act had not been passed.

Constables
bonds to be ta-
ken in penalty
of $2000.