1150 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 598.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the County Commissioners
of Talbot County to sell and dispose of, in their discretion,
the County Home, or Almshouse, for Talbot County, formerly
called and known as the County Almshouse.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Talbot County are
hereby authorized and empowered to sell at public or private
sale the present County Home, or Almshouse, in said county,
with the farm and lands belonging thereto, located in Trappe
district of Talbot County, on the road leading from the village
of Hambleton to the town of Oxford, either at public or private
sale; and at such time and upon such terms as in their judg-
ment may seem wise and expedient; provided, that if the said
property is sold at public auction, due notice shall be given of
said sale by advertisement for at least once in each of three
successive weeks in one or more of the newspapers printed and
published in Talbot County; and the proceeds arising there-
from the sale of the said County Home, or Almshouse, and the
farm lands and buildings belonging thereto shall be applied
toward the purchase of another site and the erection of other
buildings as the County Home, or Almshouse, if, in the judg-
ment of the said County Commissioners of Talbot County, it
shall seem best to erect, acquire or establish another County
Home, or Almshouse, or Asylum, for the needy or insane; and
in the event that it shall not be deemed expedient to erect,
acquire or establish such Almshouse, or Asylum, the proceeds
from the sale of said County Home and lands aforesaid shall be
applied to the payment of such outstanding bonds of said
county as the Commissioners of Talbot County shall deem
proper and most expedient.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1910.

CHAPTER 576.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 2
and 3 of Chapter 212 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland of the Session of 1908, title "Talbot County." .

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter 212 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of the Session of 1908, title