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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1812.

in favour of any attorney, officer or other person
against the aforesaid Joseph Ennalls, for fees put in his
hands for collection, in the year eighteen hundred and
ten.

He shall have
power to collect
fees put into his
hands before a
certain date by
execution.

5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said Jo-
seph Ennalls shall have full power and authority to
collect by execution, all fees which had been put into
his hands for collection by the said officers and attor-
nies, on or before the tenth day of June eighteen hun-
dred and ten.

When power
of execution
vested by this
act shall cease.

6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the power of
executing under the provisions of this act shall be
operative until the first day of January eighteen hun-
dred and thirteen; any law, usage or custom to the
contrary notwithstanding.

CHAPTER 153.

Passed, Jan. 4,
1812.

An act to provide for the appointment of Com-
missioners for the regulation and improvement
of Salisbury, in Somerset and Worcester coun
ties.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General As-
sembly, that it would greatly contribute to the advan-
tage and improvement of Salisbury, in Somerset
and Worcester counties, that the same should b^
placed under the care and regulation of certain com-
missioners, to be elected by the citizens thereof, and
vested with sufficient powers to forward and effect

Election of
commissioners,
and what de-
scription of per-
sons shall be
entitled to vote.

the purposes intended: — Therefore,
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That five judicious and discreet persons,
residing in the said town, or within three miles thereof,
and possessed of landed property within the said
town in his own right, or in right of his wife, of the
value of one hundred dollars, shall be elected by bal-
lot, on the second Monday in March, in the year eigh-
teen hundred and twelve, at the house of Ann Chaille,
in the said town, by the free white male inhabitants
thereof, above the age of one and twenty years, and
having resided within the limits of the said town for
the space of one year next preceding the election, and
having property in possession of the value of thirty
dollars, and by such other persons as are hereinafter
authorised to vote at such election; and the five per
sons who shall appear to have the greatest number of
votes at the close of the election, shall be declared to