| 1815.
CHAP. 107. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
and Thomas C. Brent, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners
to select and purchase such lot or lots of ground within the
limits of Hager's-town, or the additions to said town, as in their
judgment, or a majority of them, shall consider the most eligible
and proper site for a new court-house for the county aforesaid. |
Commissioners to
contract for building. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
herein before
named, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorised
and empowered, to contract for and superintend the building of a
new court-house, with suitable apartments for the court and juries,
clerk's, sheriff's (a) and register's
offices, and fire proof places of deposit
for the public records, on the site as above by them to be selected
and purchased, upon such terms and in such manner as to
them shall seem most advantageous to the community.
(a) By 1816, ch. 107, so much
of this act as directs the building of a sheriff's
office is repealed. |
| To appoint a superintendant. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
herein before
named, or a majority of them, shall have power to appoint some
capable person to superintend and direct the erection of the building
aforesaid, under the order of the commissioners, and that they
be and they are hereby empowered to allow to such person so employed
such compensation as they, or a majority of them, may
deem adequate to his services. |
| Levy authorised. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Washington
county be and they are hereby authorised and required, to assess
and levy on the assessable property of said county, in five successive
equal annual instalments, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand
dollars, if necessary, the first instalment to be assessed by the said
court at the second annual session which after the passage of this
act they shall hold for the purpose of laying the county levy,
and to be collected by the sheriff (b)
of said county.
(b) By 1816, ch. 107, the collector
of the county, and not the sheriff, is to collect
the money levied. |
Sheriff to give
bond. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the levy
court to take bond from the said sheriff (c)
with sufficient security,
in the name of the state of Maryland, for the collection and payment
to the commissioners aforesaid, or to their assignees, of the
said sum of money, at the time at which the public levy of Washington
county is by law directed to be collected and paid, and that
the sheriff shall be allowed the same as is allowed by law for collecting
the county levy; and in case the said bond shall be forfeited,
it shall and may be lawful for the levy court of said county,
and they are hereby directed and required, to order suit or suits to
be instituted against the said sheriff, and his securities, or either
of
them, for the purpose of enforcing the said collection agreeable to
the provisions of this act.
(c) See note to section 4. |
Money may be
borrowed. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a
majority of them, shall be, and they are hereby empowered to borrow,
from time to time, such sum or sums of money as they may
conceive necessary, at an interest not exceeding six per centum
per
annum, which said loan or loans shall be appropriated and applied
by them to the purchase of the site, and to the erecting of the said
court-house; and to insure the repayment of the said sum or sums
of money, with the interest thereon, the said commissioners, or a |
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