1844.

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 193.

Election to be
held on the 1st
Wednesday of
October 1843.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That an election for justices
of the levy court of Frederick county, shall be held in the
several levy court districts of said county, on the first
Wednesday of October, eighteen bundled and forty-five,
and annually thereafter, at the usual places in the same
manner, according to the general election laws, and by the
same judges who may hold elections for delegates to the
General Assembly, and the said judges Holding said elec-
tions, shall within three days after said election make re-
turns as usual in other elections to the clerk of Frederick
county court, to be by him recorded in his office, and a
certified copy thereof shall be furnished to the justices of
said court, at the first meeting which a majority of them
may attend, on or after the first Monday of November next,
after their election.

In case of va-
cancy, &c.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That in the case of a vacan-
cy by the death, resignation, refusal to act, removal from
the district, or by a tie among two or more, at said elec-
tions, or from any other cause, a new election shall be
held in the proper levy court district to supply the vacan-
cy, the election judges, or any one or more of them in said
district, first giving at least ten days notice of such new
election in one or more newspapers of the county, and by
handbills put at public places in said district, and said elec-
tion shall be held and regulated as the first election is di-
rected to be by this act.

Have all the
powers, rights
&c. heretofore
exercised.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the justices of the
levy court of said county hereafter elected in virtue of this
act, shall have all the powers, rights and authority, be
subject to the same qualifications, perform all the duties,
and make all the appointments that the justices of the levy
court of said county, have heretofore had and exercised,
under the laws in being before, and at the time of the
passage of this act.

Repealed.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of
acts of Assembly, so far as they are inconsistent with this
act, be and they are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 193.

Passed March
6, 1845.

An act to make valid a certain Deed of Manumission there-
in mentioned.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
That heretofore in the month of June, eighteen hundred
and twenty-four, a certain Joshua Buffington, then of Fre-