Acts. 327

after such Payment, such Undertaker, upon building as aforesaid,
shall have an absolute Estate in Fee Simple, in said Acre or Half
Acre of Land, as the Case shall be. And in Case the Proprietor or
Owner of such Land, the Guardian, Husband, or Attorney, afore-
said, will not build as aforesaid, nor that any other Person will
undertake the doing thereof on the Terms of this Act, that then and
in such Case the Justices as aforesaid shall, without Delay, agree with
some Workman or Workmen to build as aforesaid: And then such
Justices, or the major Part of them, are hereby required and obliged
to apply, by their Order or Orders in Writing, to the Commissioners
or Trustees for emitting Bills of Credit, established by Act of Assem-
bly, at the City of Annapolis, for so much Money in Bills of Credit,
as will pay for the Land valued, or to be valued by them; as also
for such further or other Sum or Sums of Money, as will compleat
the Buildings aforesaid, and other Conveniences, which the said Jus-
tices shall find requisite for the Uses of such Inspecting House or
Houses. Provided always, That the Justices of any One County shall
not take out of the said Loan-Office a Sum exceeding One Hundred
Pounds Current Money, for any One House, and the other Neces-
saries thereto belonging.

Liber H. S.
No. I

[Justices to
employ
Workmen
to build,
when the
Case re-
quires it.]

And be it Enacted, That where the Justices aforesaid shall cause
to be built and made the said Warehouses, Wharffs, and other Con-
veniences, that they paying or tendering the Value of the Land,
so as aforesaid set, to the Proprietor or Proprietors, the Guardian,
Husband, or Attorney, as aforesaid, as the Case shall be, that then
such Justices shall have an absolute Estate in Fee Simple, to them
and their Successors, the said Land, to the Use of the County: And
where the said Buildings and other Conveniences shall be made
and found by the Justices as aforesaid, the several Inspectors shall
pay the Sum of Nine Pence Current Money, for every Hogshead
in this Act mentioned so as aforesaid, by him or them taken in and
delivered out, to the said Justices; and shall, by the said Justices, be
applied to defray the Charge of their respective Counties.

[Justices
purchasing
the said
Land, to be
invested
with an Es-
tate in Fee
Simple.]

p. 64

And be it further Enacted, That where any Money shall be taken
out of the Loan Office, by the Justices of any County Court within
this Province, for purchasing Land, building any of the Ware-
houses, and supplying the same with Necessaries, according to the
Directions of this Act, the same shall be satisfied by and out of the
public Levy, or Stock, of this Province, and not otherwise.

[Deficiency
in repaying
the Money
taken out of
the Loan Of-
fice, how to
be supplied.]

And be it further Enacted, That there shall be kept at every One
of the said Warehouses a good and sufficient Beam, Weights, and
Scales, to weigh Twelve Hundred Gross Pounds at the least; and a
Set of small Weights, the same that are or ought to be provided for
the Standard Weights of each County: And the said Justices are
hereby required and obliged to keep the same in good Repair, to-
gether with Blocks, Tackles, and other Necessaries.

[Beams,
Weights,
and Scales,
to be kept at
each
Warehouse.]