ROADS. 1868, c. 402 adds the following section to read as follows: Supervisors. 165. The county commissioners shall, at their annual. 1868, c. 402. meeting in April, appoint such number of supervisors of roads as is now or may hereafter be required by law, who shall hold their offices for two years from the date of their appointment, and shall be subject to removal by said commissioners at any time for incapacity or neglect of duty. In force and approved March 30, 1868. See, under Public General Laws, Art. XXVIII, County Commissioners, the act of 1868, c. 299 relating to Roads, 1868, c. 99 repeals sections 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of this article and enacts the following in lieu thereof: Trustees. SEC. 4. The trustees of the poor of Talbot county 1868. c. 99. shall consist of five persons, to be appointed by the county commissioners of said county on the first Tuesday in April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, or at their first meeting thereafter, and at the same date or at the first meeting thereafter in each and every second year; and as often as any of them shall die, resign or Vacancy. Oath of trustees. Office. Overseer. remove from the county and become incapable of acting, the county commissioners for said county, at their first meeting thereafter, shall appoint a suitable person in the place of said trustee. 5. The person so appointed, before acting as trustee, shall, before the clerk of the circuit court for Talbot county, take and subscribe the following oath: I........ do swear that I will duly and faithfully discharge the duties and trusts committed to me as trustee of the poor of Talbot county according to my best skill and judgment, so help me God. 6. Said trustees shall hold their office until their successors are appointed and qualified. 7. The said trustees or a majority of them shall meet at the almshouse in said county between the first and tenth of May in each year, and appoint a fit person to be overseer of said almshouse, and such other proper officers as they may think necessary. This act further enacts that this act shall take effect from the date of its passage, and the trustees appointed under it shall at once supercede the existing trustees of the poor of Talbot county. Passed and approved March 3, 1868. CIRCUIT Court. 1868, c. 101 recites that whereas the general index to land record books in the circuit court for Talbot county from eighteen hundred and thirty-three to eighteen hundred and sixty-eight has, in consequence of imperfect binding and long-continued use, become so dilapidated and worn that great inconvenience and injury is likely to result from it, therefore, it enacts that the clerk of the said court, by and with the consent of the county commissioners, be, and he is hereby authorized to copy said index in a good and substantial book. That the commissioners of said county be, and they are hereby authorized and required to levy upon the assessable property of said county a sufficient sum to pay for the expenses in re-copying as aforesaid. EASTON. 1868, c. 279 repeals sections 32, 33, 37 and 81 and re-enacts the same so as to read 1868, c. 279. Number and as follows: 32. The number of said commissioners shall be three election of com- and shall be elected for a term of three years; the first missioners. election for commissioners under this act shall take place on the first Monday of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; immediatety after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election; they shall be divided by lot into three classes; the seat of the commissioner of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of one year; the second classs at the expiration of two years; and the third class at the expiration of three years from said first election so that thereafter one commissioner may be elected every year, and shall receive a per diem of not exceeding two dollars for every meeting they shall actually attend. 33. The free white male inhabitants of Easton, above Voters. the age of twenty-one years, who have resided in said town for one year next preceding the election, and all white male persons of the age aforesaid, not residents. of said town, who have a freehold estate or leasehold property for a term exceeding twenty-one years within said town, shall on the first Monday of May in each year at the court house in said town, elect by ballot one (except at the election to be held in May, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight,) judicious and discreet person residing in said town, commissioner in the place of the one whose term of office has expired. commission 37. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, Meetings of shall meet at the court house in said town or at such ers. other public place therein, as shall be previously notified, on the first Monday in each and every month or at such other times as they may deem necessary. ties and for 81. All fines, penalties and forfeitures herein im- Fines, penalposed for the violation of the charter of the town of feitures. Easton or imposed by any ordinance of said town, may be recovered before any justice of the peace for Talbot county in the name of said commissioners as small debts are recovered. This act further enacts, that the commissioners of Easton are hereby authorized and empowered to close the north end of Thorough Good alley in said town between the cemetery of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a lot eastwardly of said cemetery, recently purchased of Thomas J. Clarke for the purpose of enlarging the present cemetery, and to authorize the trustees of said church to embrace that part of said alley in their cemetery. In force and approved March 30, 1868. 1968, c. 260. Harbor master. HARBOR AND HARBOR MASTER. 1868, c. 260 enacts the following under the above title: 91. The commissioners of the town of St. Michael's, are authorized and empowered to appoint a suitable person to act as harbor master, and to designate his duties and provide for his compensation. In force and approved March 30, 1868. ROADS. 1868, c. 192 repeals 1867, c. 289 [Sup. 64] entitled an act to add a new article to the Code of Public General Laws to be entitled Public Roads in Caroline County and Talbot County and which relates to the repairs of the public roads in said counties and prescribes the duties of county commissioners, supervisors and others in relation thereto. See also under Public Local Laws, Art. VI, Caroline County, the act of 1868, c. 329, an act entitled an act to add a new article to the Code of Public Local Laws, to be entitled Public Roads in Caroline and Talbot Counties. See under Public General Laws, Art. XXVIII, County Commissioners, the act of 1868, c. 299 relating to roads. 1868, c. 31 repeals and re-enacts sections 1, 2, 3, 9, 11 and 19 of this article so as 1868, c. 31. Trustees of the poor. to read as follows: SEC. 1. The county commissioners of Washington county shall on or before the first Monday of March, in each and every year, appoint three discreet persons, inhabitants of said county, to act as trustees of the poor in said county, from and after the reception of their commissions, and qualify as said trustees, and to act in such capacity until their successors shall be appointed. 2. The clerk of the county commissioners shall, Certificate of within five days after such appointment, make out and deliver to each of said trustees, so appointed, a certificate of his appointment. appointment. cept. 3. The trustees, so appointed, and notified of their Trustees to acappointment, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars, shall accept said office, and shall meet within ten days after their said appointment, at the almshouse of said county, and qualify by taking the following oath: I Oath. do solemnly swear or affirm that I will well and faithfully execute and perform the trust and duties reposed in me as trustee of the poor for Washington county, without favor, partiality or affection, according to the best of my skill and knowledge, which oath may be administered by any justice of the peace for said county. 9. They, or a majority of them, shall, at their first Overseer, &c. meeting, annually, at the almshouse in said county, appoint a fit person to be overseer of the almshouse in said county, and such other proper officers and servants as to them may appear necessary for conducting the business of said almshouse. The overseer so appointed, and all other appointees, to enter upon the discharge of their duties on the first day of April in each and every year hereafter. accounts. 11. They shall, under the penalty of fifty dollars, Statement of make out and render to the county commissioners at their first meeting in every year, a statement of their accounts and expenditures, with the necessary vouchers, for the preceding year, which accounts shall be settled and passed by the commissioners. seer. 19. They shall allow said overseer a sum not exceed- Salary of overing the sum of three hundred dollars per annum, and so pro rata during his continuance in office. In force and approved February 18, 1868. |