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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 146.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners

of Baltimore county to borrow the sum of forty

thousand dollars, and to provide for the payment

of the same out of the levy for the year eighteen

hundred and seventy-eight and for eighteen hundred

and seventy-nine. Whereas the County Commis-

Preamble.

sioners of Baltimore county have ascertained that

the taxes levied for the year eighteen hundred and

seventy-seven have been for the most part collected

and expended, and that there exists a large in-

debtedness against the county, created by their

predecessors in office, for which immediate pro-

visions must be made ; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly

Authorized

of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of
Baltimore county be and they are hereby authorized

to borrow.

and empowered to borrow the sum of forty thousand

dollars, in addition to the sum of twenty thousand

dollars heretofore borrowed under authority of law

by their predecessors in office, if so much shall be

Provide for

found to be necessary, and to provide for the pay-

the payment.

ment of the same out of the annual levy for the year

eighteen hundred and seventy-eight and for eighteen

hundred and seventy-nine.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act

shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 27,1878.