Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-10-04


commissioners char gcs with the vouchers thereof,
also the amount necessary to support those incapa-
bic Of being hired bound under the provisions OF
this act, and the said County Commissioners after
deductnG the same fiOm the gross amount of the
hire bonds shall direct the sud Commissioners to
pay the balance due to the aforesaid hired free
grocs in propor to the amount stipulated for IN
each bond, which said payment shall be made in
the presence OF justice of the peace, who shall
J certify to the payment of the same, and the said
certificate shall be filed in the aforesaid clerk S
office in satisfaction of said bond, and the said
County Commissioners shall further direct the said
Board of Commissioners to distribute the funds pro,
vidcd for the aforesaid purposes among the said
free negroes of their respective districts, to whom
such fund is appropriated by this act in their
Judgment and discretion shall be most proper and
equitable.
! Sec. IL. frd be it enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the said Board of Commissioners to make
an annual report Of such free negroes may be
brought be fore them, together with full descrlp-
ton OF their ages names and sex, and in case OF
minors the of their parents, which report
shall be recorded in the clerks Office of the Circuit
Courts for ST. Mnry's, Calvert, Howard, Kent and
Baltimore Counties. Z
Sec. II. ind be ii enacted That the said Board
| of Commissioners shall allow such constables ard
such auctonecrs may be called by them into
rcquisition under the provisions of this act, such
fees usually allowed constablcs for serving
of writs and summons, and suc! fees as usually
| allowed auctoncers.
SEC. 13. 1nd he 1t enacted, That the said Board
of Commissioners shall allow the States Attorney
for all suits brought any Of the aforesaid bonds
such fees are allowed by law appearance fees.
| Sec. II. Ind be it enacted, That the Clerks OF
the Circuit Courts for St. Mary's, Calvert, Howard,
Kent and Baltimore Counties, shall be allowed fol
the recording all bonds executed, and census taken
N pursuance OF thus act such fees usually
allowed an, cha gcs for the recording of deeds.
SEC. Is. A,ad te il enacted, That the said Board
Of Commissioners shall bc allowed for their services
itnder the duties of this act. per diem of two dol
lars for every day they may b: engaged in the
ccuion thereof; Pr0rided, h0psrer, they shall not
be allowed any compensation for any time that
may exceed thirty days in any one year.
SEC. 10. 4siG be IL enacted, That this act shall
net apply to any free nccress nor free negro nor
his wife, who snail possess i'll his her right
hundred aud tity dollars If assessed property
nor to any ee negro, minor or adult OF either s,x
who may have bona fde residence in the faIn; Y
OF hs her parents; propid-!, sad parents shall
possess in his or hcr own right fifty dollars Of as
sess9d property for each Of his her said children
who may have bona fie residence in his her
family, III addition to the one hundred and fifty
dollars Of assessed property which is necessary to
exempt him her from the provisions Of this act.
5Ec. II. And be ii enacted That this act shall
not go into operation, take effect unit! it shall
De accepted by majority Of the legal voters of St
Mtry's, Calvert, Howard Kent and Baltimore
Counties, cast at the next general election tor the
President and the Vice President Of the United
States.
SEC. Is. ind be It enac,e1, That it shall be the
duty of the Sheriff of St. Mmys, Calvert, Howard,
Kent and Baltimore Counties, in ordering an cleo
also to order election for against the accept
ance of this act, which said election shall be held
by e,do ag upon the ticket for the afot esaid cleo
Board of Commissioners for the better control and
management of the free colored population of ST.
Mary's, Calvert, Howard, Kent and Baltimore
Counties.
SEC. 10. And be 1T enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the Judges of election in the several districts
to make return to the clerks of St. Mary's, Cal
vert, Howard, Kent and Baltimore Counties, of all
the votes cast for against the aforesaid act, and
it shall be the duty of the said clerks in ten days
after said election, to notify said Board of Commis
sioners by publication in the st. Marv's Beacon,
otherwise, and in some newspaper in Calvert, How
ard, Kent and Baltimore Counties, otherwise, of
the acceptance the rejection of this act by the
ma orty Of the legal votes cast at said election !;
and if said act shall be rejected, it shall DC null and
void, but if said act be accepted the same shall
take effect from the date of the notification of said
clerks Of said Commissioners, and they shall then
proceed to execute its provisions in the manner and
at the times and places prescribed in the foregoing
sections.
Sec. 90. Ind be 1t enacted, That Worcester,
Somerset, Talbot, Queen Annes, Prince Georges
and Charles Counties hereby included in and
subjected to all the provisions of this act, fully
as If it had been expressed in the preceding sec
| tions thereof