enforcing the said collection agreeable to the provisions of this
act.
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commission-
ers or a majority of them shall be, and they are hereby em-
powered to borrow from time to time, such sum or sums of
money as they may conceive necessary, at an interest not ex-
ceeding six per centum per annum, which said loan or loan
shall be appropriated and applied by them to the purchase of the
site, and to the erecting of the said court house; and to insure
the repayment of the said sum or sums of money with the in-
terest thereon, the said commissioners or a majority of them
shall be and they are hereby authorised to assign and transfer
to the lender or lenders thereof, any part or parts of the be-
fore mentioned assessments, to be annually collected as afore-
said, which lender or lenders shall in such case have all the
rights privileges in enforcing the payment to them of the said
assessments that the commissioners would have had if such
transfer had not been made.
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid shall annually render to the levy court of Washing-
ton county a particular account of the receipts and expendi-
tures of all monies entrusted to them, and also the progress
and state of the building until finally completed.
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That when the said court
house shall be completed and finished the said commissioners,
or a majority of them may pull down the old court house and
sell the materials of the same, the proceeds of which may be
applied to discharge any debt contracted for the building the
new court house over and beyond the sum herein before men-
tioned.
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in case any of the said
commissioners shall refuse to act, die, resign or remove out of
the county, or be incapable to act, the remaining commission-
ers or the major part of them shall fill up such vacancy.
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the public ground on ,
which the court house now stands shall be condemned as a pub-
lic street of Hagers Town, not to be built upon or used but as
one of the streets of said town.
11. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the commissioners
aforesaid shall meet at the court house in Hagers Town on the
first Monday in April next, and may proceed to the discharge
of the several duties provided by this act, and may adjourn
from time to time as may be convenient and necessary, and
each commissioner shall be entitled to receive two dollars for
each day in which be may be engaged in the discharge of the
duty imposed upon them by this act.
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Dec Sess.
1815.
Sum to be
appropriated.
Receipts and
expenditures.
Old court
houses.
Vacancies.
Ground con-
demned.
When to meet.
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CHAPTER 108.
An act to make valid a deed from William K. Claggett of Bal-
timore County, to Samuel A. Berry of Charles County.
WHEREAS, It is represented to this General Assembly,
by the petition of Samuel A. Berry of Charles county, that he
purchased a certain real estate therein mentioned in the year
eighteen hundred and six, which was conveyed to him by deed
from the aforesaid Claggett, bearing date the seventeenth day of
December in the year eighteen hundred and seven; and where-
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Passed Jan.
18, 1816.
Preamble.
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