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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 212.

AN ACT to authorize the Commissioners of Wi-

comico county to levy taxes on the assessable

property of said county, for the purpose of pur-

chasing a site on which to erect a court-house and

jail, and furnish the same.

Purchase site

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

for court house.

Maryland, That the County Commissioners of Wi-

comico county be and they are hereby authorized

and empowered to contract for the purchase of a

site for a court-house and jail, for the erection of the

same, with all the necessary offices; to superintend

the building, and furnishing the said court-house and

offices, when constructed, with all the necessary

cases and furniture for the accommodation of the

courts to be held in said building for said county,

members of the bar and public officers, and with

such other things as their convenience may require ;

and for the purpose of paying for said site, court-

Paying for

house and jail, the said County Commissioners are

hereby authorized to levy money on the taxable

property of said county, not exceeding eighteen cents

in the one hundred dollars, in one year, as follows:

in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, the

sum of eighteen cents in the one hundred dollars;

in eighteen hundred and seventy-five, eighteen cents

in the one hundred dollars; in eighteen hundred

and seventy-six, eighteen cents on the one hundred

dollars; and in eighteen hundred and seventy-seven,

such a sum as they may need, not exceeding eighteen

cents in the one hundred dollars, to complete the

expenses incurred in the purchase of site, the erection

of court-house and jail, and furnishing the same, not

exceeding thirty thousand dollars in amount.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said commissioners

Open an acc't.

shall open an account, in which said levy is to be

kept separate, and styled the court-house fund, and

that levied and collected in eighteen hundred and

seventy-four, to be applied to the payment for site;

that of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to the

erection of a jail; and that of eighteen hundred and

seventy-six and seventy-seven, to the erection and

furnishing said court-house and offices; and the said