84 FREDERICK COUNTY. [ART. 11.

tersigned by the clerk of said board, not exceeding forty thou-
sand dollars, said bonds to bear interest, payable semi-annually
on the first day of January and July respectively, and not to be
sold for less than the par value thereof and the interest on said
bonds shall be received by the collector in payment of county
taxes.

19. Said bonds shall be issued to mature at such dates as shall
not require the payment in any one year of more than four
thousand dollars of the principal sum thereof, and said bonds
shall be redeemable with interest, at the pleasure of said county
commissioners at or before the, maturity thereof.

20. Said county commissioners shall annually levy upon the
assessable property of Frederick county a tax of not less than
three cents on every hundred dollars, and the money thus
raised shall be known and kept as the "Court-house fund, " and
shall be applied by said county commissioners to the payment of
the principal and interest of said bonds as aforesaid, and the cost
of the collection of said tax, if any, and to no other purpose
whatsoever and said tax shall be collected as all other taxes are
collected.

21. Said new court-house shall be commenced on or before the
first day of September, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-
one, and shall be finished on or before the first day of September
eighteen hundred and sixty-two.

The Act of 1862, ch. 76, adds the following:

22. The county commissioners for Frederick county are Hereby
authorized to borrow from time to time, not exceeding the sum
of eight thousand dollars, to furnish the new court-house, and
to repair the grounds around the same.

23. Said county commissioners are hereby authorized to
issue bonds in sums of not less than one hundred nor more
than one thousand dollars, to be signed by the president of
the board of said county commissioners, and countersigned by