ROBERT M. McLA.NE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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purpose of macadamizing the roads of said district;

and provided, also, that whenever any taxpayer shall

desire to work out two-thirds of his road tax by haul-

Work out tax.

ing stone or other hard materials upon the county

road nearest his farm at the price fixed for the same

by the road commissioners of said district, he shall be

granted the privilege, and the said road commissioners

shall fix a uniform price for said hard materials as far

as practicable, subject to confirmation by the county

commissioners of Baltimore county.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective,

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 493.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of

Charles county to issue bonds, bearing a rate of

interest not exceeding five per cent, per annum,

to raise money to pay off the present bonded indebt-

edness of said county accruing under the act of

assembly of eighteen hundred and seventy, chapter

two hundred and ninety four, and to levy and col-

lect the necessary taxes for the payment of said

bonds and the interest thereon.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the county commissioners of

Charles county are hereby authorized to issue bonds

in sums not less than one hundred nor more than one

Charles county

thousand dollars, each to be signed by the president

bonds.

of the said board of county commissioners and coun-

tersigned by the clerk of said board, not to exceed in

the aggregate eight thousand dollars, and bearing a

rate of interest not exceeding five per cent, per annum ;

said bonds hereby authorized to be issued to bear in-

terest, payable semi-annually on the first day of July

When payable.

and the first day of January in each and every year,

at a rate of interest not exceeding five per cent, per

annum, according to the tenor of the coupons for said

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