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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 369.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners
of Harford County to sell a part of the Poor-
House Farm, and to erect suitable buildings for
the use of the Paupers of said County, and to
levy a sum of money for that purpose.

Sell or dis-
pose of.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of
Harford county be, and they are hereby authorized
and empowered in their discretion, to sell, either
at private or public sale, either in the whole or in
lots or parcels, as they in their judgment may
deem best for the interest of the county, and upon
such terms as they may deem most expedient, all
that part of the land or farm situated in Harford
county, called, or known as the Almshouse or
Poor-house Farm of Harford county; which lies
on the northern side of the public road which leads
from Walter's Mill to the Harford turnpike. And
the said County Commissioners are empowered
upon the payment of the purchase money to con-
vey by deed to the purchaser or purchasers of said
land, the entire interest of Harford county in and
to the same; provided, that nothing in this Act

Almshouse —
sell at discre-
tion.

contained shall be construed to compel the said
County Commissioners to sell the land, they are ,
herein authorized and empowered to sell, but they
are to sell only in their discretion.

Expend pro-
ceeds.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said County
Commissioners are also authorized and empowered
to expend, in a judicious manner the proceeds of
the sales of the land which they are herein author-
ized and empowered to sell, in the erection of suit-
able buildings on, or near the present site of the
Almshouse of Harford county for the use and ac-

Levy.

commodation of the Paupers of said county, and
in their discretion to levy at their next annual levy,
twenty-five hundred dollars on the assessable prop-
erty of Harford county, to be expended by said
Commissioners in addition to the proceeds of the
sales of the land they are herein authorized and
empowered to sell in the erection of said Almshouse
buildings.