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DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.
or opening the streets aforesaid, by levying an assess-
ment upon the whole of the assessable property of
said town, or upon the property of persons benefitted
thereby.
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Ibid. c. 13.
Not to issue
notes, &c, as
currency.
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86. Nothing herein contained shall be so con-
strued as to authorize the corporation hereby created
to issue any device, token, note, certificate or evi-
dence of debt to be used as currency.
In force from February 21, 1867.
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DORCHESTER AND DELAWARE RAILROAD.
1867, c. 27 provides that the county commissioners of Dorchester county are
authorized and empowered in their discretion to subscribe for the capital stock of
the Dorchester and Delaware Railroad Company, to any extent they may think
necessary to construct end complete the said railroad, not exceeding in the whole
the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and in payment thereof, to issue on the credit of
the said county, and deliver to the said company, at their par value, their bonds
redeemable in twenty years from the date thereof, bearing interest at the rate of six
per centum per annum payable half yearly, and the faith and property of the said
county are hereby pledged for the payment and redemption of the principal and
interest of the said bonds, provided, no part of the bonds issued by virtue of this
act shall be used or hypothecated by the president and directors of said road or any
one of them until the whole line of the road is put under contract, with a reasonable
prospect of its completion from when it taps the Delaware road to Cambridge.
That the said bonds when issued, shall not be liable to taxation for county purposes.
ELECTIONS—JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES.
1864, c. 60 enacts the following:
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1864, c. 60.
District No 14.
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90. All that part of Number Ten or Straight's dis-
trict, lying south of Hooper's Straights, in Dorchester
county, shall compose one district, called Fourteen,
or Holland's Island district, the polls to be held at
Thomas Park's.
In force from January 25, 1864.
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1861. c. 99 repeals sections 91 and 124 and substitutes the following:
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1861, c. 90.
Number of
districts fixed.
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91. Dorchester county is divided into thirteen elec-
tion districts according to their present bounds and
limits, in each of which election districts all elections
for public officers shall be held at the places now
established by law.
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