| 1788.
CHAP.
XXIX. |
LAWS of MARYLAND.
at or near the head of Corsica creek, there shall be a further sum of
money
raised for erecting the said new court-house and prison, as directed by
the said act,
and that new commissioners be appointed; |
Justices to levy
money,
&c. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of
Queen-Anne's county shall be and they are hereby authorised, directed and
required,
to assess and levy, on the property of said county, at the time of laying
their public levies, a sum of money not exceeding fifteen hundred pounds
current
money; that is to say, the sum of three hundred pounds in the year seventeen
hundred and eighty-nine, and the sum of six hundred pounds in each of the
years
seventeen hundred and ninety, and seventeen hundred and ninety-one, for
the
purpose of erecting the public buildings aforesaid; which said assessment,
so as
aforesaid to be made and levied, shall be collected by the sheriff of the
said
county for the time being, in the same manner as other county charges are
by
law collected; and the said sums of money, when so as aforesaid respectively
collected,
shall be paid by such sheriff to the commissioners herein after named,
or
the major part of them, or their order or orders; which said commissioners,
and
the majority of them, are hereby authorised and required to receive and
apply the
same to the uses and purposes of building a court-house and prison for
the said
county, on the aforesaid lot or piece of land purchased as aforesaid for
that
purpose. |
Commissioners
appointed,
&c. |
III. And be
it enacted, That Messieurs William Bruff, George Jackson, William
Tilghman, Conrad Theodore Wederstrandt, and Edward Wright, shall be
commissioners for the purposes in this act mentioned; and they, and a majority
of
them, are hereby authorised and required to contract for materials, and
with
workmen, or to treat and agree with undertakers to build and finish, in
a near,
strong, and workman-like manner, the said court-house and prison; and that
the
said commissioners, and a majority of them, have and be vested in virtue
hereof
with all the power and authority of the former commissioners unexecuted
by
them under the act aforesaid. |
Court-house,
&c. to be
used as such,
&c. |
IV. And be it
enacted, That the said court-house and prison to be built as
aforesaid shall, when respectively erected and finished, be used as, and
taken,
held and deemed to be, the proper court-house and prison of Queen-Anne's
county. |
Commissioners
may relinquish
a former
contract, &c. |
V. Provided
nevertheless, and it is hereby enacted, That if the commissioners
appointed by this act, or a majority of them, shall be of opinion it will
be more convenient and proper, under a view of all circumstances, to erect
the
said public buildings at any other place between Chester mill branch and
the
Three-bridge branch, and between the main road leading from Chester mill
to
Church Hill, in said county, and the head of Corsica creek and the branches
thereof, than the place fixed by the former commissioners, and if the person
from
whom the said former commissioners purchased the said parcel of ground
for
erecting thereon the said public buildings, will relinquish the said sale
and contract,
and sell to the commissioners appointed by this act a quantity of ground
in
lieu thereof, not exceeding four acres, within the limits aforesaid, and
at such
place as they may conceive more convenient for the purposes aforesaid,
it shall and
may be lawful for the said commissioners, and they and a majority of them
in
such case, are hereby authorised and empowered, at any time within nine
months,
but not otherwise, to relinquish the former contract, and purchase other
land
for the purposes in this act mentioned, at such place as they may judge
most convenient
as aforesaid, within the limits aforesaid, not exceeding four acres,
which, when purchased, the said commissioners shall cause to be surveyed
and
bounded, and a certificate thereof to be made, returned, and recorded among
the
land records of the said county; and the said commissioners shall pay the
value
which may be agree on for such parcel of land out of the money raised by
virtue
of this act, and the act to which this is a supplement, whereupon the fee-simple
in the said land to be purchased shall be vested in the said county for
ever. |
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