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mayor and five aldermen for said city, at the city-hall in Fred-
erick, until the court house, now in process of erection, shall be
completed.

LOANS AND TAXES.

The Act of June 14, 1861, ch. 6i, repeals the 16th chapter of the same year, and
enacts as follows:

15. The county commissioners for Frederick county are here-
by authorized and required to build a new court-house in Fred-
erick city for Frederick county, to tear down and remove the
buildings now used and occupied as the clerk's office and regis-
ter's office and to borrow from time to time for that purpose the
required sum or sums of money, not exceeding in the whole the
sum of forty thousand dollars.

16. Said county commissioners are hereby authorized and re-
quired to rent and procure in Frederick city suitable and conven-
ient rooms to be used by the Register of Wills for said county
as a register's office and Orphan's Court room, and by the clerk
of the Circuit Court for said county as a clerk's office, until said
new court-house shall be completed and ready for use and occu-
pation by said officers, and the said Register of Wills and the
clerk of the Circuit Court are hereby authorized and required
to remove from the offices now used by them respectively, the
papers and records in their custody, and to deliver to said county
commissioners whenever by them thereto required, full posses-
sion of the buildings now occupied by said register and clerks.

17. Said county commissioners are hereby authorized to ap-
point one or more watchmen to guard and keep secure by night
in the rooms to be procured as aforesaid, the records and papers
belonging to said offices and to pay said watchmen such salary
as said commissioners shall deem just.

18. Said county commissioners are hereby authorized and re-
quired to issue bonds in sums of not less than one hundred dol-
lars nor more than one thousand dollars, to be signed by the
president of the board of said county commissioners and coun-