CHAPTER 137.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the County
Commissioners of Kent county to erect an Alms-
house in said county, and to provide for the
payment of the same.

Passed Mar.
18,1867.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of
Kent county be and they are hereby authorized
and empowered to have erected and built an Alms-
house for said county in the place of the building
recently destroyed by fire, and to enter into con-
tracts for the construction thereof, if they shall
deem it advisable to do so, or have the same
erected under the control and direction of the said
County Commissioners or a majority of them.

Authority to
build an Alms-
house.

Sec. -. And be it enacted, That the County
Commissioners of Kent county be and they are
hereby authorized and empowered to levy, on the
assessable property of Kent county, a sum of
money not exceeding the sum of three thousand
dollars, for the purpose aforesaid, and that the
said levy may be made in one or more years, at
the discretion of the said County Commissioners,
who shall have power to borrow money for the
said purpose, and to provide for the repayment
thereof, and interest, by levies upon the assessable
property of Kent county, aforesaid.

Power to levy
tax.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted. That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

In force.