ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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county inviting proposals for the purchase of said

bonds, and the same shall be disposed of to the highest

cash bidder, and for not less than the par value there-

of, and the said bonds shall be exempt from county

and municipal taxation.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said bonds

shall be issued, payable ten years from the date there-
of, and redeemable at any time after the expiration of

When payable.

three years from the date thereof, at the pleasure of

said county commissioners.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said

county commissioners shall, in each and every year,

levy upon the assessable property in Kent county such

sum of money as may be necessary to pay the interest

Levy to pay in-

on the outstanding bonds by them issued under the pro-

terest.

visions of this act, as the same shall fall due, and also

such further and additional sum as may be required

to gradually retire and redeem such bonds, until they

shall all have been redeemed.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the money

raised by the issue and sale of bonds under this act

shall be kept and designated as the "jail fund," and

shall be applied exclusively to the cost of the erection

Money— how
designated.

of the said new jail and the purchase of the grounds

therefor; and the said tax authorized by this act

shall be collected as all other taxes are collected in

said county.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That should

the said county commissioners determine to erect said

buildings at any other or different place than upon the

lot now occupied by the present jail of said county,

Disagreement
— how settled.

and the said county commissioners and the owner or

owners of said ground or grounds desired for the erec-

tion of said buildings shall not be able to agree upon

the price of such real estate, or in case the owner or

owners of the same, or any of them, be feme covert,

infant or non compos mentis, the president of said

board of county commissioners shall make application

to the clerk of the circuit court for Kent county, who

shall thereupon issue a writ ad quod damnum, under

his hand and seal of office, directed to the sheriff of

Kent county, requiring him to summon twenty persons,

Summon jury

qualified to act as jurors, not interested in the prop-

erty to be valued, to meet at or near the property to

be valued, on a day named in said writ, not- less than

five nor more than ten days after the issuing of the