1892

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 680

fees and other expenses usually incurred in obtaining {said]
THE judgment, decree or other matter, it [shall] MAY NOT be

[no] A ground or reason for refusing to hear [said] THE

petition or ascertaining, if possible, the probable amount
[of [said] THE judgment, decree or other matter.[; and if it

shall be made to appear to the satisfaction] IF A MAJORITY

OR ALL of the judges[, or a majority thereof,] BELIEVE that

a judgment, decree or other matter was rendered in a certain
year, but the term of court remains uncertain or—impossible
to prove, they shall order that the [said] judgment, decree
or other matter[,] shall be reinstated for the amount of

indebtedness—proved, and [to] SHALL take effect from the

latest term in [said] THAT year,----[saving] SUBJECT TO the

right of appeal in all cases.

(Note: The provisions of these Sections are proposed
for repeal as obsolete.)

[Sheriff]

254. Vacant

[SOLOMONS]

[255.

The citizens of Solomon's Island in Calvert County are
hereby created a body corporate by the name of the
"Commissioners of Solomons" with all the powers and
privileges of a body politic and corporate, and by said
corporate name may have perpetual succession, sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity
and may have and use a common seal, and the same amend or
alter at pleasure.]

[256.

The corporate limits of said town of "Solomons" shall
be those of the entire island known as "Solomon's Island,"
(situate at or near the mouth of the Patuxent River in Drum
Point Harbor and connected with the mainland of Calvert
County by a shell road or causeway across mill creek).]

[257.

The__citizens of said town having resided therein, six

months previous to any election who are of the age of
twenty-one years or over and who are qualified voters of
Calvert County shall on the first Monday in May in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety—two, or as soon thereafter as
conveniently may be, elect three Commissioners of Solomons,

to serve for one year and until their successors shall be

elected and qualified; the Commissioners must be residents

within the corporate limits of Solomons, and have resided

therein for at least six months next previous to their

election, they must be taxpayers and residents in said town

during their term of office, and shall receive no pay for

their services. ]