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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

in the Circuit Court aforesaid, unless the said State's Attor-
ney elects to file a charge in the nature of an indictment, and
the State's Attorney may file such charge in the Circuit
Court, when he has not done so before a justice, either when
removed to said court for a jury-trial or on appeal, and
the justice or the Circuit Court may amend the warrant when
the case is to be tried thereof, so that the offense intended to

Right of
appeal.

be charged may be duly set forth; provided further, that the
defendant, if found guilty and adjudged to pay a fine or be
imprisoned, may appeal to the said Circuit Court on recogni-
zance within ten days after the payment is entered for his
appearance in said court.

AUTHORITY TO ISSUE BONDS.

Authority to
Issue bonds.

Sub-sec. A V. For the purpose of paying the present outstand-
ing debts of Cambridge, and after all such debts have been
paid, for the purpose of building an addition to the engine-
house, and after the debts have been paid and the addition to
the engine-house has been built and paid for, then for build-
ing or laying down other and further sewers in said town, the
Commissioners of Cambridge are authorized and empowered
to issue bonds, the aggregate amount whereof shall not
exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars, of such form and
denomination as said Commissioners may direct, but no bond
shall be issued for a sum less than one hundred dollars. The
said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of five per cent, per
annum, payable semi-annually. On the first day of January,

Interest, when
payable.

1901, all the interest then accrued shall be paid, and the inter-
est due on the first day of July in said year shall on said day
be also paid, and thereafter in every year the interest shall be
paid on the first day of January and the first day of July,
while the bonds are outstanding and still owed.

Exempt
from county
and municipal
taxation.

The said bonds shall be exempt from county and municipal
taxation, and they shall be divided into classes. One-half of
the amount issued shall become due at the end of ten years
from the first day of July, A. D. 1900, and the second half
shall be payable on or before the first day of July, A.D. 1920;
that is to say: the Commissioners may, in their discretion,
pay off any of the bonds of the second class at any time after
the first day of July, A.D. 1910, and the bonds shall so pro-
vide. The Commissioners shall pay the interest on the said
bonds out of the taxes levied or received for corporate pur-
poses, and they shall annually set apart, out of the moneys
received from the County Commissioners or out of any other
funds for corporate purposes belonging to the Town Commis-
sioners, the sum of five hundred dollars to provide a sinking