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oline county, be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, if in their discretion they may deem it	Remode tug, improving and enlarging court house
necessary, and for the interest of the county, to con-
tract for and superintend the remodeling, improving
and enlarging the court-house in the town of Denton,
in Caroline county, and constructing the necessary
fire-proof vaults for the preservation of the records
and court papers of the Circuit Court and Orphan's
Court of said county in the same ; and for the pur-
pose of paying for the remodeling, improving and
enlarging said court-house, and constructing the
necessary fire-proof vaults therein, the said Couuty
Commissioners are hereby authorized to borrow on	Issuue Bonds
the credit of said county, and if necessary to issue
coupon bonds therefor, in sums not less than one
hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars,
to be signed by the President of the Board of said
County Commissioners, and countersigned by the
clerk of said County Commissioners, bearing interest
at the rate of six per centum per annum, payable
semi-annually on the first days of July and January
respectively ; said bonds to be sold by the said
County Commissioners, for not less than the par
value thereof, and the proceeds to be applied to the
payment of the expenses incurred in remodeling,
improving and enlarging said court-house, and con-
structing fire-proof vaults therein, not exceeding the
sum often thousand dollars.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said bonds shall be
issued to mature at such dates as shall not require	Maturity
the payment in any one year, of more than one
thousand dollars of the principal sum thereof; and
that said bonds shall be redeemable with interest by
said County Commissioners at the maturity thereof.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That to redeem said	Redemption
bonds, the County Commissioners shall annually levy
upon the assessable property of Caroline county, a
tax sufficient to pay the interest on said loan, and
said portion of the principal sum to be annually paid,
and for the collection thereof, said levy to be sep-
arately designated as the " court-house fund."
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the bonds hereby	Exempt from
authorized shall be exempt from county and muni-	taxation