T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1861.

CHAPTER 64.

CHAP. 64.

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners
for Frederick county to build a new Court House
for Frederick county, to borrow money on the
credit of the county, to issue bonds for the pay-
ment of the same and to levy taxes on the asses-
sable property of the county to redeem said
bonds and to pay the interest thereon.

Passed June
14, 1861.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the County Commissioners for
Frederick county be and they are hereby authoriz-
ed and required to build a new Court House in
Frederick city for Frederick county, to tear down
and remove the buildings now used and occupied as
the Clerk's office and Register's office and to borrow
from time to time for that purpose the required
sum or sums of money, not exceeding in the whole
the sum of forty thousand dollars.

Authorised
to build a new
Court House.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said
County Commissioners be and they are hereby au-
thorized and required to rent and procure in Fred-
erick city suitable and convenient rooms to be used
by the Register of Wills for said county as a Re-
gister's office and Orphan's court room, and by the
clerk of the Circuit court for said county as a Clerk's
office, until said new Court House shall be comple-
ted and ready for use and occupation by said officers,
and the said Register of Wills and the clerk of the
of the Circuit Court are hereby authorized and re-
quired to remove from the offices now used by
them respectively, the papers and records in their
custody, and to deliver to said County Commission-
ers whenever by them thereto required, full posses-
sion of the buildings now occupied by said Register
and Clerks.

Authority to
rent rooms.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That said
County Commissioners are hereby authorized to
appoint one or more watchmen to guard and keep
secure by night in the rooms to be procured as
aforesaid, the records and papers belonging to said
offices and to pay said watchmen such salary as
said commissioners shall deem just.

Watchmen.