WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 339.

AN ACT to provide for Repairing and Making

Additions to the Court House in Worcester

County.

SECTION 1.Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the County Commissioners

of Worcester county be and they are hereby author-

ized and directed to levy annually upon the assess-

Levy annually

able property of said county two and a half cents

in the hundred dollars for the period of eight suc-

cessive years, commencing with their next annual

levy after the passage of this act, for the purpose of

repaying the principal and interest of the money

hereinafter directed to be borrowed by said commis-

sioners for repairing and enlarging the court house

For repairing:
and enlarging.

in said county, or for a less number of years, if the

improvements made should not require the whole of

said annual levies.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said county

commissioners be and they are hereby empowered

and directed to borrow, upon the faith of the levies

Empowered
to borrow.

aforesaid directed to be made, such sum or sums of

money as the building committee hereinafter ap-

pointed shall deem necessary and require of said

county commissioners for such repairs and addi-

tions to said court house, provided that the aggre-

gate amount so borrowed shall not be greater than

the aforesaid annual levies of two and a half cents

in the hundred dollars, will repay in full both of

principal and interest; and the said county com-

missioners are hereby directed, upon the delivery to

them by the lender or lenders of said money of a

certificate of deposit of the money so loaned in some

Baltimore bank, to be by said commissioners desig-

nated, and in the name and subject to the order of

the building committee hereinafter appointed, to

issue bonds to and in the name of the lender or

Issue bonds

lenders of said money, pledging the said county

in name of the
lender.

commissioners and their successors in office to the

repayment of the principal and interest of said

money, and the said county commissioners shall also

make each successive annual levy of two and a half

cents in the hundred dollars, payable by the collec-