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An ACT to authorise and empower the Justices of the Levy Court
of Dorchester County to assess and levy a sum of Money for the
purpose therein mentioned.
WHEREAS it hath been represented to this general assembly, that the records of Dorchester
county and of Caroline county, before the division of the counties, are unsafe and liable to be
destroyed, by reason of a private framed dwelling-house being contiguous to the court-house, and
sometimes used as a tavern, and that the said dwelling-house is now, and has for sometime past been,
occupied by different families; therefore, for the security and safety of the said records,
II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
justices of Dorchester county levy court, and they are hereby authorised and required, to assess
and levy on their county a sum of money, not exceeding two thousand dollars, and also the sheriff's
commission of six per cent, for collecting the same; which said monies, so to be assessed and levied,
shall be collected by the said sheriff of Dorchester county for the time being, in the same manner,
and within the same time, as other public taxes and county levies are by law to be collected, and
shall, at the expiration of the period for the collection thereof, be by him paid over to the said jus-
tices, or their order.
III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said justices be, and they are hereby authorised and empow-
ered, to apply the said money, when collected, to the purchase of the lot or lots of ground whereon
the said house is erected, the property of the late Peter Rea, deceased, adjoining the public ground,
and binding with Spring-street, so as to include the wharf, and to receive a conveyance for the same
for the use of Dorchester county.
IV. AND BE IT ENACTED, That after the said purchase and Conveyance shall have been made as
herein directed, the said lot or lots of ground, with the improvements thereon, shall and the same is
hereby declared to be the right and property of Dorchester county for ever.
V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the justices of the levy court of Dorchester county, or any four
of them, shall and they are hereby authorised and required, to meet at the court-house in the said
county, on or before the third Monday in April next, for the purpose of contracting for the purchase
of the said lot or lots of ground, with the improvements thereon, and if they shall not be enabled
to effect such purchase, it shall and may be lawful for them to appoint such person or persons as they
may think proper, commissioners for the purpose of making such purchase, who shall, with as little
delay as possible, accomplish the same, and make return thereof to the levy court at their next
meeting, and any contract made as aforesaid shall be valid and obligatory, and the levy court shall
carry the same into effect.
VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the purchase of the said lot or lots shall be accomplished
in manner aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the levy court of Dorchester county, or such com-
missioner or commissioners as they may appoint for that purpose, to sell at public sale, on a credit
not exceeding twelve months, having first given sufficient notice of the day and terms of sale, all
such houses, and other improvements thereon, as the said levy court shall not think proper to be
kept for the use of the said county, taking bonds, with sufficient security, for the payment of the
money that may be bid for such improvements, with interest, for the use of the county, and such
houses and improvements, so to be sold, shall be removed off the said lot or lots by the respective
purchasers in a reasonable time; and the bond or bonds that may be taken upon such sale may be
assigned in payment for the lot or lots so directed to be purchased as aforesaid for the use of the
county, if the proprietor or other person authorised to sell the same shall be willing to receive such
bond or bonds in payment, and if not, the money due on such bonds shall, when the same shall be-
come due, be collected for the use of Dorchester county, to defray the future expenses thereof.
CHAP. XCI.
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Passed 6th of
Jan. 1810.
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