40 FREDERICK COUNTY. [ART. 11.

pay not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars, one
half to the informer and the other half to the State.

In force from March 21, 1865.

ARTICLE XI.

Frederick County.

CONTENTS.

FREDERICK— SEC.	MIDDLETOWN—
Mayor, Aldermen, &c, of,	Levy authorized.................	4
authorized to levy, to pay
sum advanced by banks in	SHERIFF—
that city......................... 1	Pay for boarding prisoners....	5
Assessors to be appointed...... 2
Mayor, &c., to issue bonds.... 8

FREDERICK.

Chapter 173 enacts the following:

WHEREAS, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars was
levied by the rebel army under General Jubal E. Early, on the
city of Frederick, on the ninth day of July, eighteen hundred
and sixty-four, with the alternative presented to the citizens to
pay said sum or to have their town sacked by the rebel soldiery;
and whereas, after consultation between the officers of the several
banking institutions of said town, a large number of the citi-
zens, and those of the corporate authorities that remained in
the town, the said sum of money was advanced to the corporate
authorities and citizens then present to save said town from
being sacked, with the understanding and upon the written con-
dition, that the same should be refunded to the president and
directors of the Frederick County Bank, to the Central Bank of
Frederick, to the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of Frederick
County, to the Fredericktown Savings Institution and to the