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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

In force.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 29, 1878.

CHAPTER 185.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the County Com-

missioners of Anne Arundel county to erect a

lock-up or guard house in the fifth district of said

county.

Whereas great inconvenience has been experienced

in the fifth district of Anne Arundel county by rea-

son of the absence of any place of confinement for

Preamble.

prisoners who may have been committed to the

county jail of said county during their journey to

said jail ; now, therefore, to remedy the above named

inconvenience, and to provide a place for the tem-

porary custody of such prisoners,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of

Commission-
ers authoriz'd

Anne Arundel county be and they are hereby author-
ized and directed to erect a guard-house or place of

to erect lock-
up.

temporary confinement in the village of Brooklyn,

in the fifth election district of Anne Arundel county,

for the temporary custody of prisoners who may have-
been committed to the county jail of said county, or

who may be confined in said lock-up pending a

hearing before a justice of the peace of the vicinity.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Com-

missioners of Anne Arundel county be and they are

Directed to

hereby authorized and directed to levy the sum of

levy.

three hundred and fifty dollars, or as much thereof

as may be necessary for the purpose of building said

lock-up or guard-house.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That said lock-up or

Under control

guard-house shall be under the control and super-

vision of the sheriff of Anne Arundel county.