T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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county under the direction of the school commissioners
thereof, and shall be applied to no other use or pur-
pose whatever.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from and after the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 243.

In force.

AN ACT to authorise the County Commissioners of
St. Mary's county, to levy a sum of money upon
the assessable property of said county for the
erection of a county jail.

Passed Mar.
10, 1856.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of St.
Mary's county be and they are hereby authorised if in
their judgment it shall be advisable to have erected in
some suitable location in Leonardtown, in said coun-
ty a suitable county jail, and to levy on the assessable
property of said county, a sum not exceeding fifteen
hundred dollars for the purpose of paying the ex-
pense of erecting said jail.

County Com-
missioners au-
thorised to e-
rect a jail.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That said County Com-
missioners be and they are hereby authorised to dis-
pose of at public sale on reasonable notice the pres-
ent jail-house and land on which it is built, on such
terms as they may deem expedient, and the proceeds
thereof shall be applied to the building of the new
jail herein authorised to be erected.

Commission-
ers authorised
to sell present
jail property.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this hill shall
have effect from its passage.

In force.