1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 278.

that head, specifying how much thereof on account of
jurors, and also how much on account of witnesses,
payable by the. county; the support of the prison, and
all charges connected therewith or relating to prison-
ers; the support, of the alms-house and its inmates,
with a statement of how much allowed to its officers,
and how much for the pay of the trustees, allowed to
indigent out-pensioners; the holding of elections; re-
pairs and erections of public buildings, showing se-
parately the sum expended on each one; repairs of old
and erection of new bridges, designating how much
on account of each of them; repairs of the public
roads; the opening of new roads, designating the se-
veral sums allowed to individuals for lands over
which roads shall have been laid out; with such other
items as the said commissioners may judge will have
a tendency to convey general information concerning
the various transactions of the year.

CHAPTER 278.

Passed Mar. 29,
1838.

A supplement to an act, entitled, an act to provide for
electing Commissioners for Cecil County, by districts,
and prescribing their powers and duties, and repeal-
ing an act and its supplements, therein mentioned,
passed at December session eighteen hundred and
thirty-one, chapter one hundred and sixty-four.

Bi-Annual
elections.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That at the next election for Delegates to
the General Assembly, and at the same election in
every two years thereafter, seven persons shall be
elected as Commissioners of Cecil county, in the man-

One in each dis-
trict.

ner following, to wit: the qualified voters in each elec-
tion district of said county shall vote by ballot for one
person, a resident of said district, to be commissioner
of said county; and the persons having the highest
number of legal votes in the said districts respective-
ly, shall be declared duly elected commissioners of
said county, and they shall be required to have the
same qualifications as are required for Delegates to