SALES.

1868, c. 336 repeals 1865, c. 162, s. 4, [Sup. 303,] and enacts the following as a substitute therefor:

1868, c. 336. Trustee.

cation, &c.

284. The orphans' courts shall have the authority to appoint a trustee to make such sales, which trustee may be the administrator or any other person, in the discretion of the court, and who shall give bond with security, to be approved by the orphan's court or Sale and ratifi- the register of wills, and proceed with such sale in the manner usually practiced in the courts of equity in this state; and upon the ratification of such sale by the orphans' court and the payment in full of the purchase money, and not before, the said trustee shall proceed to convey the title of said intestate to said real estate in the same manner as trustees under the appointment of circuit courts are now authorized to do, and the said orphans' court may allow the same commissions to any trustee so appointed as are now allowed to a trustee appointed to sell under a decree in equity; provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to any cases now pending in said courts.

Proviso.

In force and approved March 30, 1868.

ARTICLE XCIV.

Treasurer.

1868, c. 155, entitled, an act to repeal a part of the first section of an act entitled an act to carry into effect the eighth section of the act, entitled an act for the promotion of internal improvements, passed at December session, 1835, c. 395, passed as January session, 1860. c. 303, repeals so much of the first section of 1860, c. 303, at provides that the treasurer shall not pay more than one-fourth of the whole amount of money applied under that act, in any one year.

Approved March 20, 1868.

See 1868, c. 296, under Public Local Laws, Art. XXIII, Worcester county.

ARTICLE XCVI.

Weights and Measures.

GRAIN.

25. Charges for freight, measurement, &c., of grain: penalty: proviso: right of appeal.

GRAIN.

1868, c. 445 adds the following section to this article:

Charges for

surement, &c.,

SEC. 25. All charges for freight, measurement, 1868, c. 445. weighing, inspection, wharfage and commission on freight meagrain, shall be made on the number of bushels as of grain. ascertained by weight and not by the running measure, and any one found guilty of a violation of this section shall, on conviction thereof before a justice of the peace, be fined not less than five nor more than fifty Penalty. dollars, one-half to the informer and the other half to the use of the state; provided, that any one feeling Proviso. himself aggrieved by any such judgment, shall have the

right of appeal to the circuit court of the county or Right of appeal. the Baltimore city court as the case may be, on giving bond in the usual form to prosecute such appeal, and for the payment of the judgment and costs if such judgment should be affirmed.

Passed and approved March 30, 1868.

1868, c. 92. Hooper's Island, Dorchester

county.

ARTICLE XCVIII.

Wild Fowl.

16. Hooper's Island, Dorchester county.

1868, c. 92 enacts the following:

SEC. 16. The citizens of Hooper's Island, Dorchester county, are hereby authorized and permitted to take and shoot wild fowl in or from sink boats, blinds or otherwise, for home consumption, within the waters surrounding said island not exceeding one mile from the shores of said island.

In force and approved March 3, 1868.

BLOOMINGTON.

1868, c. 459 enacts the following and repeals all acts inconsistent therewith:

1868, c. 459, s. 1. Town incorporated.

Ibid. s. 2. Election of commission

ers.

Ibid. s. 3.

Judges of election.

Polls.

Returns.

Ibid. s. 4. How elections conducted.

SEC. 1. The citizens of the town of Bloomington, in Allegany county, shall be constituted and made a body corporate by the name of the commissioners of Bloomington, with all the privileges of a body corporate, and to have a common seal and perpetual succession.

2. The male white citizens of Bloomington, aforesaid, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, being citizens of the United States, who have resided in said town for and during six months next preceding the first Monday in May next, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, may, on that day, at the place designated by the three judges appointed as hereinafter provided, in said town, and on the first Monday in June, in each and every year thereafter, at such houses as thereafter shall be designated by the municipality, be authorized to elect five commissioner for said town, who also shall have resided within the limits of the same six months next preceding the election.

3. A justice of the peace for the time being, holding office in said town, shall appoint, by writing, under his hand and seal, three judges to hold the first election, who shall keep the polls open from nine o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the afternoon, and shall conduct the said election in the same manner in which the judges of elections have been directed to conduct an election for delegates to the general assembly, by all acts passed at the January session, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, relating to holding of elections, and the said judges shall make return under their hands and seal of the persons elected, to the clerk of Allegany county, to be retained by him.

4. All future elections shall be held and conducted as shall from time to time be directed by the laws of the corporation, the same not being inconsistent with the provisions of this act or laws of this state.