Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-09-27

tOrncy ana clerk 1cCS COnStaDlcS, ana
commissioners char ges with the vouchers thereof
also the amount necessary to support those incapa
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
grocs in proportion to the amount stipulated for IN
each bond, which said payment shall be made in
the presence of some 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-
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
jud gmcnt and discretion shall be most proper and
equitable.
SEC. II. And be 1t enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the said Board of Commissioners to make
an annual report of such free negroes as may be
brought before them, together with full dcscrip
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.
Sec. II. And be 1t enacted, That the said Board
of Commissioners shall allow such constabcs and
such auctloneers may be called by them into
rcquistion under the provisions of this act, such
fees as usually allowed cOnstables for serving
of writs and summons, and such fees arc usually
allowed auctioneers.
SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That the said Board
for all suits brought any of the aforesaid bonds
such fees as allowed by law appearance fees.
SEC. II. Ind be it 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. Lf1,d 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
lars for every day they may be engaged in the ex-
ecution thereof; P,oUides ho,rerer, they shall not
be allowed any compensation for any time that
may exceed thirty days in any year.
SEC. l6. And be it enacted, That this act shall
not apply to any free ncgrcss, nor free negro, nor
his wife, who shall possess in his or her right
one hundred and fifty dollars of assessed property,
nor to any negro, minor adult, of either sex,
who may have a bona fide residence in the family
of his or her parents; Proridea, SAID parents shall
possess in his or her own right fifty dollars of as
sessed property for each of his her said children
who may have a bona fidc 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. IT. And be it enacted, That this act shall
not go into operaton take effect until it shall
be accepted by majority Of the legal voters ofSt.
Mary's, Calvert, Howard, Kent and Baltimore
President and the Vice President of the United
States.
SEC. IS. And be IL enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the Sheriff of St. Mays, Calvert, Howard,
ton of electors for President aud Vice President,
also to order election for or against the accept
ance of this act, which said election shall be held
by endorsing upon the ticket for the aforesaid cleo
tors the words. for or against the act to appoint
Bo;srd SsInTiiss
mana cement of the free colored population of st.
Mary's, 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
sioners by publication in the St. Mary'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
majority 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 said
clerks of said Commissioners. and they shall then
proceed to execute its provisions in the manner and
at the times and places prescribed ia the foregoing
ections.
SEC. 20. ind be 1t enacted, That Worcester,
Somerset, Talbot, Queen Anne's, Prince Georges
and Charles Counties are hereby included in and
subjected to all the provisions of this act, fully
if it had been expressed in the preceding sec
tions thereof