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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1822

the shore on which they reside, on the first day of May and on the
first day of November annually, all public money which they may
have collected up to the said periods.

County clerks
shall pay.

2. And be it enacted, That all the county clerks of this state shall
hereafter pay into the treasury the total amount which they may and
shall receive on marriage licenses, and ordinary and retailers licenses,
that is to say, the amount of the said licenses required by law to be
paid to the state, as well as to the amount of costs or fees chargeable
at the time of granting said licenses.

Semi annual
payments by
the sheriff.

3. And be it enacted, That all the sheriffs of this state shall hereafter
pay into the treasury of the shore on which they reside, on the first
day of May, and on the first day of November annually, all public
money which they may have collected up to the said period.

Compensation

4. And be it enacted. That the said county clerks and sheriffs, shall
be entitled to receive a commission of six per cent on ail money
paid by them into the treasury of their respective shores.

Neglect.

5. And be it enacted, That if payment is not made into the treasury
by the officers aforesaid, of all public money in their hands within one
month after the times specified as aforesaid, they shall be charged
with interest at the rate of six per cent. from the time the said money
was due and payable.

Neglect.

6. And be it enacted, That if any county clerk or sheriff shall here-
after fail or neglect to pay into the treasury the amount of all pub-
lic money in his hands for the space of three months alter the same
becomes due and payable, he shall not be entitled to any commission,
on said money thereafter paid into the treasury.

Process.

7. And be it enacted, That the same process shall and may be had
against any sheriff who fails or neglects to pay into the treasury all pub-
lic money in his hands at the time the same becomes due and payable,
that now is and can be had against county clerks.

Passed Feb.
24, 1823.
Change.

CHAPTER 218.

An act relating to the second and third districts for choosing electors
of President and Vice President of the United States.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alary land, That
the fourth and fifth election districts of Montgomery county, be, and
they arc hereby made a part of the second district for choosing elec-
tors of President and Vice President of the United States, any pro-
vision in any former law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Further
change.

2. And be it enacted, That the third election district of Montgo-
mery county, be, and the same is hereby made a part of the third dis-
trict for choosing electors of President and Vice President of the
United States, any provision in any former law to the contrary not-
withstanding.

Passed Feb.
24, 1823.
Repeal.

CHAPTER 219.

An additional supplement to the act entitled, An act for the regulation
of officers fees.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That so much of the act to which this is a supplement, as requires
that accounts of fees shall be delivered to the party charged or left
at his place of abode, before the first day of May in any year, the
said fees shall be sent out or demanded, shall be and the same is
hereby repealed.

60 days no-
tice.

2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful to execute the
body, goods, chattels, lands or tenements of any person charged with
any officers fees, who shall have a known residence, until after the