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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the said bonds authorized

Creating a
fund to be

and directed to be issued by this Act shall be sold by the said

known as
"The New

County Commissioners and under the direction of the Com-

Court House

missioners herein named and appointed, for not less than the

Fund."

par value thereof, and any accrued interest thereon, the pro-

ceeds to be deposited in some safe and reliable banking insti-

tution in Somerset County to be designated on the books of the

County Commissioners as "The Court House Fund," and to

be applied to the payment of the expenses incurred in building

a court house, vaults and offices for the Clerk of the Circuit

Court, Orphans' Court, County Commissioners, School Com-

missioners, State's Attorney, Sheriff and County Treasurer

as hereinbefore provided, but no part of the proceeds of said

bonds, or any money levied and assessed by the said County

Commissioners for the purpose of constructing the said court

house and offices and furnishing the same shall be payable

unless upon the order of the Commissioners hereby appointed

to contract for and superintend the building and furnishing

of the said court house, or their successors or a majority- of

them.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners

Annual levy.

of Somerset County shall annually levy upon the assessable

property of said county a tax sufficient to pay the interest due

on such bonds as shall be issued under the provisions of this

Act, and in the year 1924 they shall levy the sum of five hun-

dred dollars to meet the first maturing bonds issued, that is

to say, the five hundred dollars maturing in the year 1925 and

annually thereafter, the said County Commissioners shall levy

upon said assessable property the sum of five hundred dollars

until the maturity of the last bond hereby authorized to be

issued, and said levy shall be designated as "Revenue for the

Bonded Indebtedness of 1904 for Court House."

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the bonds hereby authorized

Exempt from
all taxes.

shall be exempted from all county and municipal taxes, and

that coupons for interest thereon shall be received by the

County Treasurer in payment of county taxes.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the Board of

Bonds to be
registered

County Commissioners shall register the said bonds when they

wnen sold.

are sold, showing to whom sold and what price was obtained

therefor, the date of the bonds so respectively sold, and shall

make a note upon the books of the said County Commissioners

of all bonds paid.

SEC. 11 And be it enacted, That when the building and

furnishing of the said court house is completed, the Com-