1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP 397.

assessable properly of said county, for two consecutive
years, a sum of money not exceeding in each year, the
sum of two thousand dollars, to rebuild or repair the
jail of said county, at Cumberland, and to enclose the
same in such manner, as in the judgment of the com-
missioners hereinafter mentioned, mays deem best.

Commissioners.
appointed.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That Daniel Bloch-
er, Henry Bruce and John Barnard, be and they
are hereby constituted and appointed commissioners to
carry into effect such appropriation when made, and to
superintend, contract for, and do all things necessary in
the premises, and report all they may have done to the
said county commissioners; from time to time, as said,
commissioners may require.

The materials.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That the materials
of which the present jail consists, shall be used in the erec-
tion of said new jail, as far as the same are suitable, and
the remaining portion thereof be sold and disposed of in
any way the commissioners may deem best.

CHAPTER 397.

Passed March
4, 1850.

An act relating to the Records of Somerset County
Court.

Court to order
record books to
be bound.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the judges of Somerset county court,
be and they are hereby authorised and required, at the
May term of said court, in the year eighteen hundred
and fifty, to examine the books of record in the office of
the Cleric of said court, and if in their judgment, any
of the said record books shall require to be rebound, then
they shall order the said clerk to procure the same to be
done at the expense of the county, and if in the judg-
ment of the said judges, any of the said records are in
danger of becoming illegible from mutilation, or any
oilier cause, they shall order the said clerk to transcribe
the same, in new books to be provided by the said clerk,
at the expense of the county, and such copies, when so
transcribed, shall be deemed and considered as valid re-
cords, and copies therefrom, duly authenticated, shall be
received as legal evidence in any case when such co-
pies, from the original record books, would be evidence.

Levy authoris-
ed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
of Somerset county, be and they are hereby directed to