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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1801.

Sums to be
allowed.

SEC. 36. And be it enacted, That any sum of money the said
two justices aforesaid may contract for as aforesaid, shall be
allowed in the next county assessment after the performance of
such contract, and shall be deducted out of the money arising
due for the rent of the warehouse, for which such money may
be paid, until the county shall be fully reimbursed.

Levy court
authorized
to execute
so much of
this act as
relates to
building
and repair-
ing ware-
houses, &c.

SEC. 37. And be it enacted. That the justices of the levy court
of each respective county shall have full power, at all times of
the year, to put in execution so much of this act as relates to
building, enlarging and repairing public warehouses, or the
purchase of warehouses, and to direct the making of wharves,
the building, enlarging and repairing, any warehouses for the
respective inspections appointed in virtue of this act, from time
to time, as to them shall seem necessary ; and in case the pro-
prietor, guardian or attorney of the proprietor, of any warehouse,
or any other person concerned therein, shall refuse or neglect to
make such buildings, additions, repairs, or other necessary con-
veniencies, as shall or may be wanting at any other times of the
year, and such as the said justices shall direct, it shall and may
be lawful for the said justices, and they are hereby required, to
have the same done at the expense of the county ; and the jus-
tices of such county shall receive so much of the rent of the
said warehouse of the inspectors, which they are hereby directed
to withhold from the proprietors, and obliged to pay to the jus-
tices, as will reimburse the county the charges of such build-
ings, additions and repairs ; and if upon application of the
inspectors to the justices aforesaid, for building, enlarging or
repairing, any warehouses or wharves, such justices shall refuse
or delay to do their duty therein, every justice, so refusing or
neglecting, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty dollars.

Levy court
to receive
rents of
certain
warehouses

SEC. 38. And be it enacted, That in all cases under the late
inspection law, where the owners or proprietors of warehouses
have given the same up to be repaired at the expense of the
county, or where warehouses have been built at the expense of
the county, and the rents already received have not reimbursed
the money advanced in building or repairing such warehouses,
the justices of the levy courts of the said counties shall receive
the rents of all such warehouses from the inspector or inspectors,
under the present act, until the whole money advanced as afore-
said, and interest thereon, shall be repaid, and they are hereby
authorized to allow, out of the sums so received, such compen-
sation to the proprietor of any land on which such warehouse
may stand, as they in their discretion may think right and pro-
per, not exceeding twenty dollars per year.

New
inspectors,
their duties.

SEC. 39. And be it enacted, That when and as often as a
new inspector or inspectors shall be appointed in the place of
the inspector or inspectors who served at the same warehouse