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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the site of the present jail for said county, or in any

other more eligible or convenient location, which the

said County Commissioners may select, in such man-

ner and style, and upon such place as the said County

Commissioners may elect; and in such building to

use such of the materials of the present jail of said

county, as they may deem suitable, and also to erect

in connection with such new jail, a work-house suit-

able for the proper employment of prisoners confined

in said jail.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That should said

County Commissioners determine that the public

Location of

convenience required that such new jail should be

erected upon any other or different lot than the one

upon which the present jail for said county stands,

then the said County Commissioners are hereby au-

thorized and empowered to purchase such ground or

grounds as may be required for the erection of such

jail and work-house, and to sell and convey the grounds

upon which the present jail is located, and use the

proceeds of such sale in the purchase of other grounds

and the erection of a jail thereon.

Defraying ex-

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of

penses Of.

defraying the expenses of the erection of said build-

ings aud the purchase of said grounds, the said

County Commissioners are authorized aud empow-

ered to borrow, from time to time, the required sum

or sums of money, not exceeding, in the whole, the

sum of forty thousand dollars.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That said County

Authorized to
Issue bonds

Commissioners be and they are hereby authorized

and required to issue bonds, in sums of not less than

one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand

dollars; to be signed by the President of said Board

of County Commissioners, and countersigned by the

clerk of said board, not exceeding forty thousand

dollars, said bonds to bear interest, payable semi-an-

Interest

nually on the first day of January and on the first day

of July, and not to be disposed of for less than the

par value thereof, and the interest on said bonds shall

be received by the collector of taxes for said county

i n payment of county taxes; provided, that the said

bonds, shall be exempt from county and municipal

taxation.