THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 321.

AN ACT to authorise the County Commissioners
of Cecil county, to increase their annual levy,
so as to pay the current expenses of the county
within the year.

Passed March
10, 1858.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the County Commission-
ers, of Cecil county be, and they are hereby au-
thorised and required, at their next levy, to levy
for the county expenses due or incurred within
the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and by
estimate, for one fourth of the expenses due or
falling due, within the year eighteen hundred and
fifty-eight.

Commission-
ers authorised
to levy.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County
Commissioners aforesaid, are further authorised
and required to levy, in the year eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-nine, for the balance of the county
expenses due or incurred, in the year eighteen
hundred and fifty-eight, and for one half of what
shall be estimated to be required for the year
eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and they shall
levy, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty, for
the balance of county expenses remaining due for
the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and
three-fourths of what shall be estimated to be
required, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty,
and they shall levy, in the year eighteen hundred
and sixty-one, the balance of said expenses due
for the year eighteen hundred and sixty, and the
whole of what, by estimate, shall be required for
the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

Authorised to
make further

levy.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That from and after
the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the said
Commissioners shall levy, in each and every year
a sum, which they shall ascertain by a careful
estimate to be sufficient to pay all the current ex-
penses of the said county for that year; Provided,
that it shall be the duty of the said Commission-
ers to apply the moneys levied as aforesaid in each,
and every year, first, to the payment of State
witnesses and jurors, and then to such other coun-
ty expenses as said Commissioners may deem pro-
per to apply the same.

Shall levy in
each and every
year.