444 Assembly Proceedings, May 24-June 22, ij68.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

missioners or the major Part of them or their Order or Orders who
are hereby authorized and required to receive and apply the same
together with the Monies arising on the said Subscription to the
Uses and Purposes following that is to say to pay and discharge
the Expence of the Purchase of the said Land so as aforesaid to be
allotted and chosen and for Building a Court House and Prison for
the said County on the said Land and other Charges incident thereto
as by this Act is before directed

[How the
Tobacco
may be dis-
charged]

Provided always and be it Enacted that it shall and may be lawful
for the several and respective Taxable Inhabitants of the said
County to pay and discharge the said Quantity of Tobacco so to be
levied and raised for the uses aforesaid in Money in the same
manner as they are now enabled to pay and discharge the Publick
or County Levy Any Clause Matter or Thing herein to the contrary
notwithstanding

[Baltimore
County
Court to be
held in the
new Court
House when

finished]

And be it further Enacted that after the finishing of the said Court
House to be built as aforesaid Baltimore County Court shall be
held in such new Court House and such new Court House and Prison
shall be used taken held and deemed to be the proper Court House

and Prison of Baltimore County

['Til then
the different
Courts to be
held in the
Market-
House, &c.]

And be it further Enacted that from hence forth until the said
new Court House shall be finished the Court of Assize nisi prius
Oyer and Terminer and Goal Delivery for Baltimore County and
the County Court and Elections of the said County shall be held in
the Market House in the said Town of Baltimore

[Court
Records to
be removed
before the 3^d
of August,
to Baltimore-
Town, and
taken
Care of
as the Jus-
tices shall
direct]

And be it further Enacted That the Clerk of Baltimore County
Court for the Time being shall at some convenient Time before the
third Day of August next remove or Cause to be removed from
the old Court House of the said County all the Books Rolls Papers
and other Records to the said County Court belonging to Baltimore
Town aforesaid and there safely deposite keep and preserve the same
in some convenient Apartment in the said Market House or such
other proper and convenient House in the said Town as shall be
appointed by the Justices of the said County Court And the Justices
of the said Court shall direct and cause a List of all the said Records

[The
Sherriff of
Baltimore
may remove
the Prison-
ers from
Joppa Jail,
&c.]
[The Jus-
tices author-
ised to make
Sale of the
Court-House
and Prison,
to the high-
est Bidder]

and Books to be signed by the Clerk of the said County and entered
upon Record amongst their Proceedings

And be it further Enacted That the Sheriff of Baltimore County
for the Time being may at any Time at his pleasure remove all or
any of the Prisoners from the said old Goal at Joppa to any Goal
he may think fit in Baltimore Town aforesaid and there until the
said new Prison shall be finished keep and detain them according to
Law and at his own Peril But that the Removal of them as aforesaid
shall not be deemed any Escape in Law whereon to charge the said
Sheriff

And be it further Enacted That the Justices of the said County