LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1842

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That au election for justices
of the Levy Court of Frederick county shall be held in the se-
veral election districts of said county on the first Wednesday
of October eighteen hundred and forty three, and biennially
thereafter, at the usual place in the same manner according
to the general election laws, and by the same judges who
may hold elections for delegates to the general assembly,
and the said judges holding said election shall within three
days after said election make returns as usual in other elec-
tions to the clerk of Frederick county court, to be by him
recorded in this office and a certified copy thereof shall be
furnished to the justices of said court at the first meeting
which a majority of them may attend on or after the first
Monday of November next after said election.

CHAP. 256.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That in the case of a vacan-
cy by the death, resignation, refusal to act, or removal from
the district or any other cause, except a tie, the Governor
shall make the appointment, which said appointment shall
continue until the first election, which may be held thereaf-
ter for members of the General Assembly of Maryland for
Frederick county, at which time an election shall be held to
supply the vacancy or vacancies which may have happened
as aforesaid, and the member or members thus elected shall
supersede the appointment made by the Governor as afore*
said, and in case of a tie between two or more persons,
they shall determine by lot, and the person or persons on
whom the lot shall fall shall be considered duly elected.

In case of va-
cancy Govern-
or to appoint,
&c.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the justices of the
Levy Court of said county hereafter elected in virtue of
this act, shall have all the powers, rights and authority, be
subject to the same qualifications, perform all the duties and
make all the appointments that the justices of the Levy
Court of said county have heretofore had and exercised,
and which they would have if elected and commissioned
under the act to which this is a supplement.

Justices here-
after elected
to have full
power.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of
acts of assembly so far as they are inconsistent with this act,
be and they are hereby repealed.

Repealed.

CHAPTER 256.

An act to change the names of John Wesley M 'Nelly, Se-
nior, ond John Wesley M'Nelly, Junior.

Passed March
10, 1843.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the name of John Wesley M'Nelly, Senior, of the

Names chan-
ged.