CHARLES RIDGELY, (of Hampton) Esq. Governor.

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land, That the justices of the levy court of Cecil county, or a
majority of them, are hereby authorised and empowered to sell
the poor's house in said county, and the public ground apper-
taining thereto, on such terms as they or a majority of them
may think proper, and to apply the money arising therefrom to
the purchase of such lands and erection of such buildings as
are authorised by this act.
9. BE IT ENACTED, That the said levy court or a ma-
jority of them, are hereby empowered and directed after any
sale made us aforesaid, to execute a deed of conveyance to the
purchaser or purchasers of said poor's house, and the public
ground sold as aforesaid, and when the same shall be recorded
as other deeds are, the same shall be valid and effectual to pass
to the purchaser or purchasers, all the right title and interest
of the said county in and to the same.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court of
Cecil county aforesaid, or a majority of them be, and they are
hereby authorised and empowered to purchase any quantity of
land lying and being in Cecil county aforesaid, not exceeding
one hundred acres, and to erect such buildings thereon as they
in their judgment may think necessary, for the use of the poor
of sail county, and the same when so obtained, to be applied
to the use of the poor of said county, subject to the laws and
regulation-; that the poor's house in said county and the public
ground appertaining thereto now are.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court afore-
said be, and are, hereby authorised to assess and levy on the as-
sessable property of said county, such sum or sums of money,
and at such times as they or a majority of them may think ne-
cessary to tarry into effect the provisions of this act.

Dec. Sess.
1815.

Deed.

May purchase
land &c.

CHAPTER 51.

An act for introducing a copious supply of water into the town
of Cumberland.
Sec. 1. BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a company be and they are hereby incorporat-
ed and made a body politic, for the purposes hereinafter men-
tioned, and that the said body politic shall be known and dis-
tinguished by the appellation of The President and Directors of
the Cumberland Water Company, and shall have full and am-
ple power and authority to do, perform and execute, all and
every matter and thing which a similar corporation may or right-
fully can do, and shall have succession during the continuation
of this act; and to that end, for perpetuating the said incorpo-
rate body, the heirs, devisees, representatives, and assignees
of the individual members thereof, shall be, and are hereby
declared to be members thereof, and by the name aforesaid
may sue and be sued, answer and be answered, in any court
of law or equity in this state or elsewhere.
2. AMD BE IT ENACTED, That the capital stock of the
said corporation shall not exceed ten thousand dollars, to be
divided into live hundred shares of twenty dollars each, and
that subscriptions to the said capital stock shall be opened in
the town of Cumberland, under the direction of John Scott,
Peter Londermilk, Samuel Smith, George Thistle, David
Schriver, and Michael C. Sprigg or any two or more of them,
on a day appointed by them for that purpose, and notified in

Passed Jan.
5, 1816.

Style—ef-
fect in law.

Capital—
subscriptions.