Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-10-18

torncy and clerk fees Constables, auctonccrs ana
commissioners char ges with the vouchers thereof,
also the amount necessary support those incapa
bic of being hired bound under the provisions OF
this act, and the said County Commissioners after
dcducting the same from the gross amount OF the
hire bonds shall direct the said Commissioners to
pay the balance due to the aforesaid hired frcc ne
groes in proportion to the amount stipulated tor IN
each bond, which said payment shall be made IN
the presence of Justice OF the peace, who sila
certify to the payment of the same, and the said
certificate shall be filed in the aforesaid clerk 5
office in satisfaction of said bond, and the said
County Commissioners shall further direct the said
Board of Commissioners distribute the funds pro-
vided for the aforesaid purposes among the said
free negroes of their respective districts, to whom
such fund is appropriated by this act as in their
Judgment and discretion shall be most proper and
equitable.
SEC. II. ind 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 before them, together with full descrlp-
ton OF their ages, and sex, and in case of
minors the names of their parents, which report
shall be recorded in the clerks office Of the Circuit
Courts for st. Mary's, Calvert, Howard, Kent and
! Baltimore Counties.
SEC. II. And be IL enacted That the said Board
of Commissioners shall allow such constables and
such auctIoneers may be called by them into
requsition under the provisions OF this act, such
fees as are usually allowed constables for serving
of writs and summons, and such fees usually
allowed auctoneers.
SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the said Board
for all suits brought any of the aforesaid bonds
such fees as allowed ny law appearance fees.
Sec. IA. Ind be 1t enacted, That the Clerks of
the Circuit Courts for St. Marys, Calvert, Howard,
Kent and Baltimore Counties, shall be allowed for
the recording all bonds executed, and census taken
in pursuance of this act such fees as are usually
| allowed and charges for the recording of deeds.
Sec. l5. ind be it enacted, That the said Board
of Commissioners shall be allowed for their services
under the duties of this act. per diem of two dol
lars for every day they may b. engaged in the ex-
ecuton thereof; Prorided ho,vever, they shall not
be allowed any compensation for any time that
may exceed thirty days in any year.
Sec. 1G. 4nd be 1t enacted, That this act shall
not apply to any free ncgress, nor free negro. nor
one hundred and fifty dollars of assessed property
to any free negro, minor adult, of either sex,
who may have bona fde residence in the family
of his or her parents; Procided, sald parents shall
sessed property for each of his her said children
| who may have "a bona fide residence in his or her
family, in addition to the one hundred and fifty
dollars of assessed property which is necessary to
exempt him or her from the provisions of this act.
| SEC. II. And be 1t enacted, That this act shall
not go into operation, nor take effect until 1t sal
be accepted by majority of the legal voters OF ST.
M1ry's, Calvert, Howard, Kent and Baltimore
Counties, cast at the next general election for the
President and the Vice President of the United
States.
SEC. 49, And be it enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the Sheriff of St Marys, Calvert, Howard
Kent and Baltimore Counties, in ordering an cleo
ton of electors for President and Vice President
also to order election for against the accept
of this act, which said election shall be held
by endorsing upon the ticket for the afor esad cleo
tors the words, for against the act to appoint
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. -Ar,d be it enacted, That it shall be the
duty OF the judges of election in the several districts
to make return to the clerks of St. Marys, 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, III ten days
after said election, to notify said Board of Commits
sioncrs by publication in the ST. Mary's Beacon, or
otherwise and in some newspaper in Calvert, How
ard, Kent and Baltimore Counties, or otherwise, Of
the acceptance the rejection of this act by the
ma iority of the legal votes cast at said election
and if said act shall be rejected, it shall be null and
void, but if said act be accepted, the same shall
take effect from the date of the notification Of sad
| clerks of said Commissioners, and they shall then
proceed to execute its provisions in the manner and
at the times and places prescribed i'll the foregoing
sections.
! Sec. 30. A,d be it enacted, That Worcester
Somerset, Talbot, Queen Anne's, Prince Georges
and Charles Counties hereby included in anC
subjected to all the provisions of this act, full
as If it had been SO expressed i'll the preceding sec
1 tons thereof