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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1839.

An ACT Supplemental to an Act, entitled, an Act to provide for building a
new Court-bouse in the Town of Cumberland, in Allegany County,
passed December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, chapter
eighty-nine. — 1839, ch. 48.

Levy to be
made.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the commissioners of Allegany county may, in their dis-
cretion, assess and levy on the assessable property of said
county, at the time of making their next public levies, such
sum of money as in their judgment shall be necessary for

Proviso.

finishing and completing said court-house; Provided, that
they shall not in any one year levy a greater sum than one
thousand dollars, nor in the whole, a greater sum than four
thousand dollars.

Collectors'
commission

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the said commissioners at
their regular annual levies, in addition to such levies as they
may make for completing said court-house, may levy a suffi-
cient sum to pay the collector's commission for collecting the
same, and that the assessment hereby authorized to be made
and levied, shall be collected by the collector of the county
charges for the time being, in the same manner as other public
charges are by law collected, and the said money, or any instal-
ment thereof, when collected, shall be paid over by such col-
lector to the aforesaid commissioners, or the majority of them,
appointed under the act to which this is a supplement, and
they, or a majority of them, are required to apply the same to
the use and purpose by this act directed.

Powers
extended.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all the powers and duties
conferred on the said commissioners, by the eighth section of
the act to which this is a supplement, be, and the same are
hereby extended to and fully vested in the commissioners
aforesaid, or a majority of them.

AN ACT to abolish the Magistrates' Courts of Allegany County, and to
extend the jurisdiction of a single Justice of the Peace in said County.
1839, ch. 103.

Act repeal-
ed to far as
regards
Allegany.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the first day of May, eighteen hundred and
forty, the act, entitled, an act to establish magistrates' courts in
the several counties in this state, and to prescribe the jurisdic-
tion, passed December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-
five, chapter two hundred and one, and the several supple-
ments thereto, so far as the same relates to Allegany county,
be, and the same are hereby repealed.

A single
justice of
the peace to
have juris-
diction

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That after the first day of May
next, a single justice of the peace in Allegany county, shall
hold and have original jurisdiction in all cases over which
they now have jurisdiction, when the debt or damages laid or