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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAP. XC.
An Act for the benefit of Colmore Duvall, of Prince-George's County.
Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 125. A Private Act. |
1805.
CHAP. 90.
Passed Jan. 25, 1806. |
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CHAP. XCI.
An Act to provide for the erection of a new Court House for Baltimore
County. Lib. TH. No. 1, fol. 126.
Supplements, and other acts, 1808,
ch. 75; Nov. 1809, ch. 196, and 1810, ch.
168. |
Passed Jan. 27, 1806. |
WHEREAS the existing court-house of Baltimore county
is in a
state of ruinous decay, and the public records therein deposited considerably
endangered; therefore, |
Preamble. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
Thomas McElderry, Thomas Rutter, Thomas Dixon, Alexander
McKim, John McKim, junior, William C. Goldsmith, Robert
Stewart, Henry Payson and William Jessop, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners to contract for and superintend the
building of a new court-house on the public ground now belonging
to said county, situated at the north end of the dwelling occupied
by John Hollins, Esquire, upon such terms, and in such manner,
as to them shall seem most advantageous to the community. |
Commissioners appointed
to superintend building
of court-house. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of Baltimore county
be and they are hereby authorised and required, to assess and
levy upon the assessable property of said county, in five successive
equal annual instalments, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, the
first instalment to be assessed by the said court at their first session
after the passage of this act for the purpose of laying the county
levy, and to be collected by the collector of said county. |
Levies authorised. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the levy
court to take bond and sufficient security, in the name of the levy
court of Baltimore county, for the collection and payment of the
said sum of money to the commissioners aforesaid, or their assignees,
at the time the public levy of Baltimore county is by law
directed to be collected and paid; and in case the said bond shall
be
forfeited, it shall and may be lawful for the levy court of said county,
and they are hereby directed and required, to order suit or suits
to be instituted against the said collector and his securities, or
either of them, for the purpose of enforcing the said collection
agreeably to the provisions of this act. |
Bond ad security
to be taken
for the collection
and payment of
said money. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for the
levy court of said county to contract and agree with the corporation
of the city of Baltimore, for the accommodation of the said
corporation in one or more rooms of the said court-house, for the
transaction of the business of the said corporation, upon such terms,
and upon the payment of such sum of money, as the said contracting
parties shall agree and stipulate. |
Levy court to
contract for accommodation
of
corporation of
Baltimore for one
or more rooms in
court-house. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall and may
be lawful for the
levy court aforesaid to abate the several levies hereby directed in
proportion to the amount stipulated to be paid by the said corporation. |
Levies may be
abated, &c. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners,
or a majority
shall be and they are hereby empowered to borrow, from
time to time, such sum or sums of money as they may conceive to
be necessary, not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, at an interest
not exceeding six per centum per annum, which said loan or loans |
Commissioners
authorised to borrow
money. |
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