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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
shall be appropriated and applied by them to the erecting of the said
court-house; and to insure the repayment of the said sum or sums
of money, with the interest thereon, the said commissioners, or a
majority of them, shall be and they are hereby authorised to assign
and transfer to the lender or lenders thereof, any part or parts of
the before-mentioned assessments to be annually collected as aforesaid,
which lender or lenders shall, in such case, have all the rights
and privileges in enforcing the payment to them of the said assessments,
that the commissioners would have had if such transfer had
not been made. |
To render to levy
court annually an
account of receipts,
&c. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid shall
annually render to the levy court of Baltimore county a particular
account of the receipts and expenditures of all monies intrusted to
them, and also the progress and state of the billing. |
When court-house
is completed old
one may be pulled
down. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the said court-house
shall
be completed and finished, the said commissioners, or a majority of
them, may pull down the old court-house, and sell the materials of
the same, the proceeds of which may be applied to discharge any
debt contracted for the building the new court-house, over and beyond
the sum herein before mentioned. |
Vacancies, how
to be filled. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case any of
the said commissioners
shall refuse to act, shall die, resign, or remove out of the
county, or be incapable to act, the remaining commissioners, or
the major part of them, shall fill up such vacancy. |
* 1796, ch. 68.
Mayor and city
council authorised
to institute a
scheme of a lottery.
Proviso. |
11. AND, whereas from the increasing wealth
and population of
the city and county of Baltimore, it is reasonable to make provision
for the erection of a large and commodious court-house, and for
such person an additional sum of money may be necessary, beyond
the amount authorised to be levied by the provisions of this act:
And whereas by an act, * entitled, An act to erect Baltimore-town,
in Baltimore county, into a city, and to incorporate the inhabitants
thereof, the drawing of lotteries within the said city is confined to
special purposes, therefore, BE IT ENACTED, That from and after
the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the mayor
and city council of Baltimore to authorise the aforesaid commissioners,
who are hereby constituted managers therefor, to institute
a scheme of a lottery within the said city, and to dispose of tickets
in such lottery, for the purpose aforesaid, under such limitations as
the mayor and city council shall by ordinance direct and appoint,
anything in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding; Provided,
that not more than thirty thousand dollars be raised by any scheme
in virtue of this act. |
Certain ground
may be condemned. |
12. AND BE IT ENACTED, That so much of the
public ground in
North Calvert-street on which the court-house now stands, as shall
be equal to the present width of said street, shall be condemned as
a public street of the said city, not to be built upon or used but as
one of the streets of the said city. |
Residue to be
valued. |
13. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all the residue
of the said lot, or
so much thereof as the commissioners shall determine to be proper,
not condemned as aforesaid, shall be valued by the commissioners,
or a majority of them, and disposed of at such valuation to those
persons who have built houses fronting upon such public ground,
and that upon the payment of the price settled and ascertained by
the commissioners as aforesaid, all the ground so purchased shall |
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