Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-11-01

torncy and clerks fees, consablcs, auctionccrs and
commissioners chargcs with the vouchers thereof,
also thr amount necessary to support those lncapa-
bic of being hired or 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 free ne
groas in propo ton to the amount stipulated for in
each bond, which said payment shall be made in
the presence of justice of the peace, who shall
certify to the payment of the same, and the said
certificate shall BE- filed in the aforesaid clerks
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 as in their
Judgment and discretion shall be most proper and
equitable
SEC. II. dnd be 1t enacted, That it shall be the
duty Of The said Board of Commissioners to make
an annual report of such free negroes us may be
brought before them, together with full descrip-
ton OF their ages, names 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.
of Commissioners shall allow such constablcs and
such auctlonccrs may be called by them into
rcqusition under the provisions of this act, such
fees usually allowed constablcs for serving
of wrts and summons, and such fees as are usually
allowed auctonccrs.
SEC 49, And be it enacted, That the said Board
of Commissioners shall allow the States Attorney
for all suits brought on any of the aforesaid bonds
such fees allowed by law as appearance fees.
Sec. II. -And 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 usually
allowed and charges for the recording of deeds.
Sec. Is. Ind be 1t enacted, That the said Board
OF Commissioners shall be allowed for their services
under the duties of this act. per diem of two dol
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ccution thereof; Provided, horeucr, they shall not
be allowed any compensation for any time that
may exceed thirty days in any one year. :,
SEC l6 And be it enacted, That this act shall
not apply to any free negrcss nor free negro, nor
his wife, who shall possess in his or her own right
one hundred and fifty dollars of assessed property,
nor to any free negro, minor adult, OF either sex,
who may have bona fde residence in the family
of his her parcnts Provided, SAID parents shall
possess in his or her own right fifty dollars of as
sesscd property for each of his her said children
who may have bona fide residence in his or her
family, i'll addition to the hundred and fifty
dollars of assessed property which is necessary to
exempt him or her from the provisions of this act.
Sec. II. Ind be IL enacted, That this act shall
not 90 into operation, take effect until it shall
be accepted by jorty of the legal voters of st.
Mary'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. IS. And be it enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the Sheriff of ST. Mary's, Calvert, Howard,
Kent and Baltimore Counties, in ordering an cleo
ton of electors for President and Vice President,
also to order an election for against the accept
of this act, which said election shall be held
by endorsing upon the ticket for the aforesaid cleo
tors the words, for against the act to appoint a
the better control a.,d
mana cement Of the free colorcd population of ST..
Marys, Calvert, Howard, Kent and Baltimore
Counties.
SEC. 10. And 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. 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 Commits
soners 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 or the rejection of this act by the
ajolity of the legal votes cast at said election
and if said 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 said
clerks of said Commissioners. and they shall then
proceed to execute its provisions i'll the manner and
at the times and places prescribed i'll The foregoing
cctions
SEC 90. AaM be it enacted, That Worcester
Somerset, Talbot, Queen Ancs, Prince Georges
and Charles Counties hereby included in and
subjected to all the provisions of this act fully
as if it had been expressed i'll the preceding sec
tions thereof.