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ROBERT EDEN, Esq; Governor.
for Caroline county aforesaid, and they, or the major part of them,
shall be, and
they are hereby authorised and required, to buy and purchase, in fee, a
quantity of
land, not exceeding four acres of land, at or adjoining Pig-point, on the
east side
of Choptank river, below Melvin's warehouse, for the purpose of building
thereon
a court-house and a prison for the said county; and shall cause the said
land to be
laid out by the surveyor of Dorchester county, with good and sufficient
boundaries,
and a certificate thereof to be returned and recorded in the records of
the said county;
and the said commissioners, or the major part of them, shall draw their
order
of the money hereafter mentioned, to be collected by him for that purpose;
and such
payment for the land aforesaid, shall invest the justices of Caroline county,
and their
successors, with an estate in fee-simple therein, for the use of the said
county, for
ever: And if the said commissioners, or the major part of them, and
the owner of
the said land, should differ about the value of the said land, in such
case the commissioners,
or the major part of them, shall be, and they are hereby authorised and
empowered, to order the sheriff of Dorchester county to summon twelve freeholders
upon the said land, who shall be empannelled and sworn as a jury, to inquire
the
value of the said land; and the said commissioners, or the major part of
them,
shall draw their order upon the sheriff of Caroline county, to pay the
said valuation;
and the said sheriff is hereby directed to pay the said order, out of the
money
hereafter mentioned, to be by him collected for that purpose, and upon
his payment
of the said order, the fee-simple in the said land shall be invested, as
aforesaid,
in the justices of Caroline county, and their successors, for the use of
the said
county, for ever. |
1771.
CHAP.
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V. And be it
enacted, That the justices of Caroline county, or the major part
of them, are hereby authorised to contract and agree for a convenient place
in
the said county to hold the courts for the said county, and to contract
and agree
for a convenient place in the said county, for their books, papers, and
other records,
and also for a fit building for the custody of prisoners; and the said
courts shall be held
and records kept, at such places respectively, until the court-house and
prison for
the said county shall be erected and built; and the charge and expence
of such places
shall be defrayed by the said county, and assessed with the public and
county levy. |
Justices to
contract for a
place for holding
courts, &c. |
VI. And be it
enacted, That the justices of Caroline county shall be, and they
are hereby authorised and required, to assess and levy, on the taxable
inhabitants
of the said county, with the county and public levy, as much tobacco as
will pay
for the purchase or valuation of the land aforesaid, together with the
sheriff's salary
of five per centum for collection; which said quantity of tobacco
shall be collected
by the sheriff of the said county, in the same manner as other public and
county levies are by law collected; and the said tobacco, when collected,
shall be
paid by the said sheriff to such person or persons, as the commissioners
aforesaid, or
the major part of them, shall order and direct. |
And levy money
for the
purchase
thereof. |
V. And,
whereas the taxable inhabitants in that part of Dorchester county
erected into Caroline county, have paid seventy thousand pounds of tobacco
towards
the building of the court-house in Cambridge, in Dorchester county:
And,
forasmuch as justice requires, that the said seventy thousand pounds of
tobacco
should be refunded, and applied towards the building the court-house and
prison
now to be erected in Caroline county; III. Be
it therefore enacted, That the justices of
Dorchester county shall be, and they are hereby authorised and required,
to assess and
levy, with their public and county levy, by two equal assessments, the
next year
and the year afterwards, the quantity of seventy thousand pounds of tobacco,
upon
the taxable inhabitants of Dorchester county, together with the sheriff's
salary of
five per centum for collection, which said quantity of tobacco,
so to be assessed and
levied, shall be collected by the sheriff of Dorchester, from the taxable
inhabitants
thereof, in the same manner as other public and county levies are by law
collected; and the said tobacco, when collected, shall be paid by the said
sheriff to
the commissioner aforesaid, and shall be by them applied towards building
the
court-house and prison in Caroline county aforesaid. |
Tobacco to be
levied in Dorchester
county
towards
building a
court-house,
&c. |
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