1887.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 112.

Payment.
Accountability.

above sum of five hundred dollars, and pay the same
over t6 the bridge commissioners; and the said com-
missioners shall be held accountable to the commissi-
oners of Cecil county for the respective sums of money
placed in their hands for the faithful expenditure there-
of in the building of said bridge.

Publish for pro-
posals.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said commis-
sioners shall publish, for. two weeks, in one of the
newspapers of the town of Elkton, that they will re-
ceive proposals for the building of said bridge.

CHAPTER 112.

Passed Mar. 1,
1838.

An act supplemental to an act limiting the time for the
collection of fees of Attorneys, Solicitors, Clerks, Re-
gisters, Sheriffs, and other officers of this State, pass-
ed at December session eighteen hundred and thirty-
six, chapter seventy-three, so far as relates to Mont-
gomery county.

Authority to
collect.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
that Henry Harding, Thomas F. W. Vinson, and Wil-
O'Neale, junior, former sheriffs and collectors of Mont-
gomery county, be, and they are hereby empowered to
collect all fees and levies specified in an act entitled,
an act passed at December session eighteen hundred
and thirty-six, chapter seventy-three, in the same
manner in which they were severally authorized to do

Payments in
bar.

whilst they were in office; provided, that if any person
or persons, his, her or their representatives, against
whom any such fees or levies may have been rendered,
will make oath or affirmation, before a justice of the
peace, that the same has been satisfied, or in the case
of a representative or representatives of a deceased
person, if he, she or they shall make oath as aforesaid,
that he, she or they have reason to believe, and do be-
lieve, that the said fees or taxes have been satisfied or
paid, that this act shall not extend to such cases; and

Limitation.

provided also, that the powers conferred by this act,
shall not continue in force longer than the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and forty.