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SAMUEL STEVENS, Jr. ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

Dec. Ses. 1823.

• other monthly meeting as the members of the Little Falls Monthly
Meeting may become attached to, shall be authorised and empowered
to fill any vacancy or vacancies, that may in future happen among
said trustees in the same manner, that the Little Falls Monthly
Meeting is herein before authorised and empowered to do by this
act.

Passed Dec.
12, 1823.
Rate allowed.

CHAPTER 10.
An Act for the better payment of the Jurors and Justices of the Levy Court in
Cecil County.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That each and
every Juror summoned on the regular pannel of Jurors to Cecil
County Courts, who shall reside more than eight miles from the
place of holding the said court, shall, in addition to the per diem
allowed him by law, be entitled to an allowance of ten cents for every
mile more than eight miles, he shall travel in going to and returning
from the court, likewise that each and every Justice of the Levy
Court, who shall reside more than eight miles from the place of hol-
ding their courts, shall, in addition to the per diem allowed him by
law, be entitled to an allowance of ten cents for every mile, more
than eight miles he shall travel in going to and returning from each
court, to be levied, collected and paid, in the same manner and at
the same time with his per diem allowance. Provided, that the said
itinerant charges shall be allowed to each of the said Jurors, and
each of the said Justices of the Levy Court only for once a week go-
ing to, and once a week returning from the said courts at any one
term.

Passed Dec.
12, 1823.
Levy for She-
riff for keep-
ing Jacob
Thompson
prisoner.

CHAPTER 11,

An act to authorise the Levy Court of Caroline County, to levy on the assessable
property of said County the sums of money therein mentioned.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Justices of the Levy Court for Caroline county, be, and they are
hereby authorised and directed at their next annual levy to levy on
the assessable property of said county, a sum of money, not exceed-
ing; twenty cents per day, for the use of Frederick Holbrook, sheriff
of said county, for every day that he shall satisfy the said court that
he kept in prison Jacob Thompson, negro, who was committed for
his fine and fees arising on a presentment in the county court of said
county, at March term last past, and made his escape from the pri-
son thereof.

$8 for S.
Fountain.

2. And be it enacted, That the Levy Court aforesaid, be, and they
are hereby authorised and directed at their next annual levy, to levy
on the assessable property as aforesaid such sum of money as they
shall think right and proper, not exceeding eight dollars, for the use
of Samuel Fountain, of said county, as a remuneration to him for ex-
pences incurred in the sickness and burial of a certain James Sater-
field, of said county, (not heretofore levied,) who accidentally fell sick
and died at his house.

Passed Dec.
13, 1823.
$500 allowed.

CHAPTER 12.

An act to settle and ascertain the salary of the Members of the Council for the
ensuing year.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That each
member of the Council shall be entitled to receive for the ensuing
year, the sum of five hundred dollars current money for his salary.