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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 131

AN ACT concerning

Carroll County - Almshouse

FOR the purpose of repealing certain obsolete local laws
of Carroll County with respect to the almshouse
property, its operation, and possible conveyance.

BY repealing

The Public Local Laws of Carroll County
Sections 3 and 4

Article 7 — Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1965 Edition, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 3 and 4 of the Public Local Laws
of Carroll County being Article 7 of the Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1965 Edition, as amended) be and they
are hereby repealed:

Article 7

They shall publish annually with their statement of
the county expenditures, a statement of the financial
condition of the almshouse.

4.

The County Commissioners of Carroll County are
hereby authorized and empowered to sell, at public sale,
such part or parts of the County Almshouse property or
farm as, in their discretion, they shall determine to be
to the interest and advantage of the County to sell. The
said Commissioners are authorized to give a good and
sufficient deed for the property or properties so sold to
the purchaser or purchasers thereof. The proceeds from
sale of said property or properties shall be paid over to
the County Treasurer of Carroll County as a part of the
general funds of the County. Prior to any such
transaction the County Commissioners shall give public
notice of their intent in a notice published not less
than three weeks in advance thereof in a newspaper
published and of general circulation in Carroll County.

The County Commissioners of Carroll County are
hereby authorized and empowered to lease, dedicate or
convey, with or without consideration, any part of the
County Almshouse property or farm, commonly known as the
"County Home Farm," not to exceed 15 acres, and including
that 7.54 acres known as the Carroll County War Memorial
Medical Center, to the Carroll County General Hospital,
Incorporated, its successors and assigns, for hospital
and medical purposes only, said property to revert to the
grantor, the County Commissioners, upon the cessation of
the use of said property for hospital and medical