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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 353.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of

Kent county to build a new jail for Kent county ;

to borrow money on the credit of the county for

that purpose; to issue bonds for the payment of

the same; to levy and collect taxes for the payment

of such bonds, and the interest on the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the county commissioners of

Kent county be and they are hereby authorized and

empowered to build a hew jail for said county, on the

Empowered to
buiid new jail.

site of the present jail for said county, or in any other

more eligible or convenient location which the said

county commissioners may select, and in such build-

ing to use such of the materials of the present jail of

said county as they may deem suitable.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That should

said county commissioners determine that the public

convenience requires that such new jail should be

erected upon any other or different lot than the one

Power of com-
missioners.

upon which the present jail for said county stands,

then the said county commissioners are hereby author-

ized and empowered to purchase such ground or

grounds as may be required for the erection of such

jail.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of

defraying the expenses of the erection of said build-

Borrow money

ing, and the purchase of said grounds, the said county

to defray ex-

commissioners are authorized and empowered to bor-

penses.

row, from time to time, the required sum of money,

not exceeding in the whole the sum of twenty thous-

and dollars.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That said county

commissioners be and they are hereby authorized and

issue bonds.

empowered to issue bonds in sums of not less than one

hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars,

to be signed by the president of said board of county

commissioners and countersigned by the clerk of said

board, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, said

Interest ? how
payable.

bonds to bear interest, payable semi-annnally, on the

first day of January and on the first day of July; pro-

vided due notice shall be given in the papers of the