Ibid. s. 11. Bailiff.

Ibid. s. 12. No banking privileges.

Reservation.

to destrain therefor as the collector of public county assessment has to destrain for the same, and the said president and commissioners shall fix the term of office, amount of bond and compensation of such collector.

183. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority, annually, to appoint a bailiff, whose duty it shall be to preserve the peace and good order of said town, and for this purpose he is hereby vested with the same power and authority as any constable may now have under the laws of this state.

184. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize the corporation created to issue any device, token, note, certificate or evidence of debt to be used as currency, and the legislature reserves the right to annul or repeal this charter when the same shall be deemed advisable.

1868, c. 416 is entitled an act appointing a committee with authority to purchase a lot or lots of ground in the city of Annapolis, and causing to be erected thereon a

mansion for the governor of this state, and making an appropriation therefor.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

1868, c. 261 enacts that the county commissioners of Anne Arundel county be and they are hereby authorized, if in their judgment they deem it expedient, to contribute one thousand dollars to aid the commissioners of Baltimore and Howard counties in the purchase and construction of a bridge on the Patapsco river, at Elkridge Landing, with a view to making the same a free bridge thereafter.

1868, c. 367 enacts that the county commissioners of Anne Arundel county, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered, if in their judgment they shall deem it expedient, as soon as a bona fide subscription for ten thousand shares of the capital stock of the Baltimore and Drum Point Rail Road Company shall have been made by other parties, to subscribe in behalf of said county for a sum of money not exceeding two thousand shares of the said stock, and in payment of the said subscription to issue bonds in the name of the county commissioners of said county in such sums, and redeemable in such time or times within twenty years, as the said commissioners shall prescribe on the face of said bonds, and to sell the said bonds and apply the proceeds of such sales in payment for the stock so subscribed for by them, and to each of said bonds shall be attached coupons for the interest thereon, at the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly.

That the said bonds shall be exempt from county and municipal taxation, and the faith of Anne Arundel county is hereby pledged for the redemption thereof.

That the said county commissioners shall levy on the assessable property subject to taxation, for the ordinary expenses of the said county, such sum or sums of money as shall, in their discretion, be necessary for the prompt payment of the principal and interest of the said bonds.

That the said county commissioners are hereby authorized to sell or pledge the shares of stock which may be subscribed for under the provisions of this act, and apply the proceeds to the payment of said bonds or the interest thereon.

That a majority of said county commissioners are hereby empowered to vote the stock subscribed for by this act at any meeting of the stockholders of said company, under such conditions as the private stockholders may be authorized to vote their individual stock.

That this act shall be advertised in the newspapers published in Anne Arundel county, for two months preceeding the next election held for members of the house of delegates, and be subject to the approval of a majority of all the members elected to each house of the general assembly of Maryland, at its next session after said election.

PATUXENT RIVER.

1868. c. 202 entitled an act to protect the navigation of the Patuxent river enacts as follows:

What weirs

nuisances.

135. All weirs and hedges in the Patuxent river 1868, c. 202. above Hill's bridge and below the public wharf at the and hedges, town of Queen Anne, are declared nuisances and may be abated as such by any person.

136. If any person shall place or make any weir or hedge in the said Patuxent river, contrary to the provisions of the preceding section, he shall forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace, either of Prince George's county or Anne Arundel county, one-half to the informer or per

Penalty.

Forfeiture.

son who
may sue for the same, and the other half to be
paid to the justice and by him paid annually to the
county commissioners of the county.

137. If any person shall fish any such weir or hedge, he shall for every offense forfeit the sum of fifteen dollars, to be recovered and applied as directed in the preceding section.

In force and approved March 28, 1868.

SHERIFF.

1868, c. 107 repeals section 194 and substitutes the following therefor:

1868, c. 107. Fifty cents per

194. The sheriff of Anne Arundel county shall be day for board- allowed for keeping and boarding each prisoner committed to the jail of said county the sum of fifty cents per day, to be levied and collected according to law.

ing prisoner.

In force and approved March 7, 1868.

By the act of 1868, c. 215 the commissioners of Anne Arundel county are authorized and directed to allow the sheriffs of said county such additional compensation for the board of prisoners committed to the jail of said county from March 10, 1867, to March 10, 1868, as in their judgment they may deem advisable.

ARTICLE III.

Baltimore County.

COLLECTORS.

55. Tax collection districts.

56. Collectors: bond.

57. Compensation to collectors.

58. Duty of collectors: notice: time al

lowed for collection.

59. Proceedings to enforce collections. 60. Redemption.

61. Costs.

62. Memoranda of assessable property: statements to county commissioners.

63. Re-appointments.

64. Liability of securities.

ELECTIONS.

104. Dividing line of third and fourth election districts.

105. Precincts.

106. First election district: metes and bounds.

107. Third district.

108. Ninth district.

109. Eleventh disirict.

110. Twelfth district.

111. Duty of officers of registration. 112. Judges for precincts.

LUTHERVILLE.

113. Incorporated.

114. Limits of town.

115. Election of commissioners: their powers: provisos.

116. Judges of election.

117. Who entitled to vote.

118. Quorum: vacancy.

ORPHANS' Court.

139. Time of meeting.

140. Mileage to judges.

REGISTER OF WILLS.

146. Alphabetical index to records: costs: levy for amount.

ROADS.

149. Primary road districts.

Sub-Sec. 2. Election for supervisors: local board of supervisors of district No. 1, &c.: who to vote: vacancy.

Sub-Sec. 3. Organizing local boards.

Sub-Sec. 4. Sub-districts.

150. Central board of review and control of roads and bridges.

Sub-Sec. 2. Duties of central board.

151. Powers of local board: appeal: pro. viso.

Sub-Sec. 2. Estimates: tax.

152. Work or pay tax: certificate: provisos.

Sub-Sec. 2. Sections: road-book: notice: sale of sections: repair: proviso.

Sub-Sec. 3. Letting out sections.

Sub-Sec. 4. Contracts for sections: security.

153. Duty of contractors: specifications: neglect to repair, &c.

154. Improvement by contiguous property holders: joint stock company: proviso: graveling, draining, &c.

155. Committees: county surveyor: room for meetings of central board: expenses of board: clerk: times of meetings.

156. Changing location of road, &c.: procedure: appeal.

157. Bonds of treasurer and collector of primary district: suit.

Sub-Sec. 2. Powers of supervisors: appeal.

Sub-Sec. 3. Payment of money due, time allowed: tax.

Sub-Sec. 4. Application for new road, how made: duty of local board.

Sub-Sec. 5. Certificates of payment.
Sub-Sec. 6. List of persons assessed.
Sub-Sec. 7. Rules and regulations.
158. Opening streets leading from city.

BRIDGES.

By the act of 1868, c. 232 the county commissioners of Baltimore and Carroll counties are authorized and required to levy a sum of money on the assessable property of their respective counties at their next levy term to the amount of four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in the discretion of the county commissioners, two thousand dollars of said four thousand dollars to be levied by the county commissioners of Baltimore county on the tax payers of said county,

and two thousand to be levied by the county commissioners of Carroll county on the tax payers of said county, to build a bridge over the north branch of the Patapsco river, on the Limekiln road, and to appoint two commissioners, one from each county, to cause said bridge to be built in such manner as the said county commissioners may deem most expedient; provided, however, that said work shall be done upon such plan and estimate that when said bridge shall be completed it will afford safe and easy passage over said river.

By the act of 1868, c. 412 the county commissioners of Baltimore and Harford counties are authorized to levy in their discretion a sum of money sufficient for the purpose of building a bridge over the Little Gunpowder river at Emory's ford, and to contract for the building of the same.

See, as to bridge at Elk Ridge Landing, the act of 1868, c. 261 under Public Local Laws, Art. II, Anne Arundel County,

CLERK.

By the act of 1868, c. 129 the clerk of the circuit court for Baltimore county is authorized and required to make out in a fair and legible handwriting, general indexes to the law and equity dockets, in his office, from the beginning of said dockets to the passage of this act, (March 17, 1868,) and shall be allowed therefor the same compensation as is now allowed by law for making general indexes to the land records of the county, to be paid for by the county commissioners for Baltimore county, on the certificate of the chief judge of the third judicial circuit, or that of the associate judge of said circuit residing in Baltimore county, that said work and labor has been properly performed.

That the county commissioners of Baltimore county be and they are hereby directed to pay to the clerk of the circuit court for Baltimore county, whatever sum or sums of money may be found to be due him under the preceding section upon the receipt of the certificate provided for in the preceding section.

That from and after the passage of this act (March 17, 1868) it shall be the duty of said clerk to enter in said general index all judgments thereafter obtained on the day on which said judgment are rendered, for which service he shall be allowed the same compensation as is now allowed for similar services, to be paid for by the parties to the suit, respectively, as other costs are now paid.

COLLECTORS.

1868, c. 328 repeals sections 55, 56, 57, [Sup. 359,] 58, 59, 59, 60, 61 and 62 of this article and enacts the following in lieu thereof, and repeals all acts and parts of acts relating to the collection of state and county taxes in Baltimore county, inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this act:

1868, c. 328. Tax collection

SEC. 55. The county commissioners of Baltimore districts. county are hereby required and directed to divide Baltimore county into not less than thirteen tax collection districts.