CECIL COUNTY. 2017

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 218. 1886, ch. 23.

321. The President and Commissioners shall have the power and au-
thority for the purpose of providing for the expense of building the lock-
up or place of confinement for the reception of offenders, already erected
in the town, to levy an annual tax of ten cents in the one hundred dollars
on the assessable property of the town, in addition to the tax provided for
in Section 291, until said expense shall have been fully paid and liqui-
dated.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. S, sec. 219. 1886. ch. 23.

322. The President and Commissioners shall, in their discretion, have
the power and authority to borrow the money necessary to pay the ex-
pense of erecting said building, and to secure said loan by a mortgage
upon said building and the ground upon which the same is erected.

1892, ch. 149, sec. 220.

323. Hereafter not less than two hundred and fifty dollars of the annual

levy by the County Commissioners of Cecil County, for keeping in repair
the highways in said county as may be levied or taxed upon the assessable
value of real and leasehold property within the limits of said town, shall
be annually turned over to the President and Commissioners of said town,
by the County Commissioners aforesaid, and belong to and become part
of the income of said town, to be by said President and Commissioners
of said town appropriated for the repair and improvement of the public
highways or streets within the limits of said town; and it shall be the
duty of the said County Commissioners in estimating for any annual levy
to ascertain what proportion of the said levy is applicable alone to the
construction and repair of highways within said county.

ORPHANS' COURT.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 220. 1860, Art. S, sec. 137.

324. The Judges of the Orphans' Court may appoint their crier, and
the County Commissioners shall levy for his use a sum of money not
exceeding one dollar per day for every day the register of wills shall
certify that the said crier acted as such.

1020, ch. 103.

325. The Judges of the Orphans' Court for Cecil County shall each
receive the sum of ten dollars for every day's attendance upon the session
of said court, to be paid at least as often as the end of each and every
quarter after the qualification of said judge, provided that said per diem
shall not exceed the sum of six hundred dollars in any one year.*

*Sec. 2, ch. 103, 1920. repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.
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