The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-05-24

AN ACT to repeal, amend and re-enact
, chapter three hundred and sixty-nine
/ passed at January session eighteen hun
dred and seventy, entitled ian Act to au-
thorize the County Commissioners of Har-
ford county to sell part of the Poor
house farm, and to erect suitable build
ings for the use Of the paupers of said
county, and to levy a sum of money for
that purpose"
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That chapter three
hundred and siXty-rine, passed at January
session, eighteen hundred and seventy, en-
titled "an Act to authorize the County Com
missioners of Hartford county to sell part
of the Poorhouse farm, and to erect suit
able buildings for the use of the paupers,
of said county, and to levy sum Of money
for that purpose" be and the same is here
by repealed, amended and re-enacted. so as
to read as follows:
l. And be it enacted, That the County
Commissioners of Hartford county be and
they arc hereby authorized and empower
ed, in their discretion, to sell, either at pri-
vate or public sale, either in whole, or in
lots, or parcels, as they in their judgment
may deem best for the interest of said coun-
ty, and upon such terms as they may deem
most eXpedient, all that part of the land or
farm situated in Hartford county, called or
known as the Almshouse or Poorhouse farm
of Hartford county, which lies on the north
ern side of the Public road which leads
from Walters mill to the Hartford turnpike,
and the said County Commissioners are
hereby empowered, upon the payment of
the purchase money, to convey by deed to
the purchaser or purchasers of said land,
the entire interest of Hartford county in
and to the same; prooided, that nothing in
this Act shall be so construed as to compel
the said County Commissioners to sell the
land they are hereby authorized and en-
powered to sell, but they are to sell only
in their discretion.
SEC 2. And be it enacted, That the
said County Commissioners are also au
thorized and empowered to eXpend, in a
judicious manner, the proceeds of the sales
of the land, which they are herein author
lied and empowered to sell, in the erection
of suitable buildings on or near the present
site of the Almshouse of Hartford county,
for the use and accommodation of the pau
pers of said county, and in their discretion
to levy, at their next annual levy, the sum
of five thousand dollars or so much there
of as in their judgment may be necessary,
on the assessable property of said county,
to he expended by said Commissioners, in
addition to the proceeds of the sales of the
land they are herein authorized and en-
powered to sell in the erection of said
Almshouse buildings.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said
County Commissioners are hereby author
lied and empowered to enter into any con-
tract or contracts that may be necessary to
carry out the purposes of this Act.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its pas
sage.
Approved March 2S, 1872.
We do hereby certify that the aforego-
ing is a correct copy of an Act of the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, passed Janu-
airy session, 1872.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk of House of Delegates,
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
my10 Secretary of Senate.