1208 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

whole or any part of all that tract of land lying on the road
from Snow Hill to Berlin and in the Second Election District
of Worcester County aforesaid known and called by the name
of "Rochester" and "Purnell's Outlet," or by whatsoever name
or names the same may be known or called, upon which is at
present located the county almshouse and overseer's residence
and other county buildings, and to grant and convey the same
to the purchaser or purchasers thereof by a good and sufficient
deed; and they are further authorized and empowered in their
discretion to sell at either public or private sale and on such
reasonable terms as may be to said County Commissioners
seem to the best public interest, the whole or any part of the
growing timber on the land aforesaid without selling the said
land or any part thereof, and to execute such instruments of
writings as may be proper to pass title to said timber to the
purchaser or purchasers thereof, and at the time to grant and
convey to the purchaser or purchasers of such timber as may
be sold, such rights of way and rights of storage and mill sites
as may seem right and proper to said County Commissioners.
It is the intention hereof to authorize and empower said
County Commissioners to sell said timber and lands together
or separately as to the said County Commissioners may seem
to the best interest; provided, however, that before the said¹
property and timber or either of them or any part of either of
them shall be sold at private sale it shall first be offered by
public auction, after notice of at least three successive weeks,
in some newspaper of general circulation in Worcester County
and published therein, stating the time, place, manner and
terms of sale.

5. That upon the sale of the whole of said property it shall
be the duty of said County Commissioners of Worcester County
to proceed at once to purchase other property in said county
and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the care and main-
tenance of the needy poor of said county if such buildings are
not already on the property so purchased, and in the mean-
time to make suitable and proper provision for the care and
maintenance of said poor, and any surplus that may remain
from the sale of the said almshouse property after the pur-
chase and equipment of the property in this section referred to,
shall be continued as the almshouse fund for the care and main-
tenance of the needy poor of said county, the said fund to be
used or invested in some interest-bearing security or securities
at the discretion of the said County Commissioners.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts
inconsistent with the provisions hereof be and the same are
hereby repealed.