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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Commission
appointed to

land, That Henry Page, Hampden P. Dashiell, H. Fillmore

build new
court house

Lankford, Joshua W. Miles, Oliver T. Beauchamp, Thomas

for Somerset

H. Bock and Thomas Dixon, of Somerset County, be and they

County.

are hereby appointed Commissioners, and they, or a majority

of them, are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to

employ a competent architect at a reasonable compensation

and to contract for and superintend the building of a court

house, jury-room and library, and all the necessary offices for

the accommodation of the Circuit Court and Orphans' Court

for Somerset County, the County Commissioners and other

county boards and officers, upon the public ground in the

town of Princess Anne, in Somerset County, and the furnish-

ing- of said court house and offices, when so constructed, with

necessary fire-proof vaults and cases for the reception of the

public records, and their preservation from loss by fire, and

with all necessary furniture for the accommodation of the

the Circuit Court and Orphans' Court for Somerset County,

the County Commissioners, the Board of School Commis-

sioners for said county. County Treasurer, the State's Attor-

ney, the Sheriff and the members of the bar, and with such

other things as their convenience may require ; which court

house and offices shall be built by contract after public notice

of at least three weeks in such newspapers as said Commis-

sioners shall select ; of the letting of the contract, the County

Commissioners reserving the right to reject bid or bids which

for any reason shall not be satisfactory to them, and the bidder

to whom the contract may be awarded shall execute a bond

to the said County Commissioners with security or sureties.

and with penalty approved by the Commissioners appointed

by this Act conditioned for the faithful performance of his

contract in accordance with the specification furnished by

Cost of same
not to exceed

said Commissioners ; provided, that the said court house and

a certain

sum.

offices when built shall not cost exceeding thirty thousand

dollars; and, provided, further, that when so built the said

court house and offices shall be under the control and super-

intendence of the County Commissioners for Somerset County.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners herein

Disposition oi

above appointed, or a majority of them, shall have full power

old court
house.

and authority to dispose of and sell, at public or private sale,

as they may deem best, the old court house, Clerk's office

and County Commissioners' office, and the proceeds derived

from such sale shall be paid to the County Commissioners of

Somerset County. and shall become a part and parcel of the

court house fund provided for by this Act, or they may give