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press at least once a week for at least two weeks. No
commission or other compensation shall be charged or
paid to any member of said Levy Court for effecting the
sale or negotiation of said bonds.

at Farm

terest

Section 5. The said bonds, principal and interest, Principaland shall be payable at the Farmers' Bank at Georgetown, alde Banho Delaware, in gold coin of the United States of America, Georgetown equal in weight and fineness to the present standard, out of the money from time to time appropriated for that purpose by the Levy Court of Sussex County; and said Levy Court is hereby authorized and directed to pay the interest on said bonds to the said Farmers' Bank when and as the same shall become due, and to pay said bonds when and as the respective classes mature, in accordance with the foregoing schedule. The said Levy Court in fixing the rate of taxation shall annually, until the first beovicourt to installment of said bonds shall become due and payable, toring bonds provide for a sum equal to the amount of interest due when fixing each year upon said bonds, and as and when said bonds shall become due and payable, shall in like manner pro vide for a sum equal to the aggregate of said bonds in addition to the amount necessary to pay the interest on the unpaid bonds as before provided, which shall, when collected and paid to the County. Treasurer, be set apart by him in a separate account to be opened for that pur. pose; and the said County Treasurer shall apply the said sum annually to the payment of such part of said loan and interest thereon as may from time to time become due under the provisions of Section 2 of this Act.

Section 6. All of said bonds shall bear the same date. and shall be numbered from one to seventy inclusive. All ber of bonds money received from the sale of any or all of said bonds, after the payment of the charges and expenses connected County Treas. with the preparation and sale thereof shall be deposited money received by the County Treasurer at the Farmers' Bank at bonds

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Georgetown to the credit of the Levy Court of Sussex County, in a separate account, and payment therefrom shall be made by the said Levy Court by a special warrant, upon which shall be printed “Sussex County Court House Improvement Warrant”, and which in other re spects shall be in the form prescribed by said Levy Court.

Special
Warrant

Judges to apo point commission of three residents of

Section 7. The Judges of the Superior Court, at its

next regular term in and for Sussex County, after the Sussex County approval of this Act by the Governor, are hereby autho

rized and directed to appoint a commission of three men, citizens and residents of Sussex County, to determine upon and cause to be made such additions and repairs to the Sussex County Court House as said commission shall deem proper, and the money realized from the sale of the aforesaid bonds shall be applied to the payment of the cost of making such additions and repairs as shall be determined upon by said commission, and for no other purpose.

Powers of commission

The said commission is hereby authorized and empowered to employ architects and other agents as in their judgment seems necessary, and to enter into contracts and agreements respecting the said additions and repairs, and to prescribe the form of said contracts and agreements and the execution of the same; and further shall have power and authority to require good and sufficient bond with surety from any person who shall contract for the work or any part thereof to be done under the provisions hereof.

No moneys shall be appro

No moneys shall be appropriated by the Levy Court of priated except Sussex County from the fund realized from the sale of

the aforesaid bonds (except for the payment of the charges and expenses in the preparation and sale of said bonds) unless said commission, or a majority of them, shall have first approved in writing the bills rendered

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therefor; and if the said commission shall employ an May employ architect they may, if they deem it expedient, direct said architect to likewise approve all bills for work, labor, materials or otherwise before presenting the same to the Levy Court for payment.

Section 8. The bonds to be issued shall be in the fol- Form of bond. lowing form, to wit,

Sussex County in the State of Delaware, for value received, hereby acknowledges its indebtedness and promises to pay to the holder of this bond at the Farmers' Bank at Georgetown, Delaware on the ---- day of A. D. 19.--, the sum of Five Hundred Dollars with interest thereon at the rate of -- per centum per annum, payable semi-annually on the

day of and

--- in each year. This bond is one of the authorized issue of seventy bonds aggregating Thirty-five Thousand Dollars, by virtue of and in strict compliance with an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Delaware, approved A. D. 1913, entitled “An Act Authorizing and Directing the Levy Court of Sussex County to Borrow on the Credit of the County a Certain Sum of Money not Exceeding Thirty-five Thousand Dollars in Order to provide for the Repair and Improvement of the Sussex County Court House”, and in pursuance of a resolution of the Levy Court of Sussex County adopted on the

A. D. 191.-.

day of

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It is hereby certified that this bond is one of the issue authorized by the above recited Act of the General Assembly and that the faith and credit of said Sussex County are pledged for the punctual payment of the principal and interest of this bond according to the terms.

In witness whereof the County Treasurer, President of the Levy Court, and Clerk of the Peace of Sussex County have hereunto set their hands and the seal used by the Levy Court of Sussex County, at the town of Georgetown, in Delaware, this

day of

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Signature of County Treasurer to be engraved on coupon &c.

Section 9. The signature of the County Treasurer shall be engraved or printed on each coupon or interest warrant and said bonds shall contain such provisions in addition to those set forth in Section 8 of this Act, and not inconsistent with its requirements, as said Levy Court slali determine.

Approved March 12, A. D. 1913.

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CHAPTER 53.

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AN ACT authorizing the Levy Court of Sussex County to sell the

County Jail property in Georgetown in Sussex County.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. The Levy Court of Sussex County is hereby Levy Court of authorized, if they shall deem it advisable, to sell the jail authorized to property, at Georgetown, in Sussex County, for such surn as they may be able to obtain and which they may deem advisable to accept, and are hereby authorized to purchase land upon which a new jail may be constructed To purchase and to proceed to construct same as they shall deem ad- proceeds visable.

lands &c. with

Section 2. Nothing in this Act shall be taken to empower the Levy Court Commissioners of Sussex County to dispose of the jail property at Georgetown in Sussex To make proCounty without having previously made provision for commodation the accommodation of any prisoners which may at any before selling time be held by the said County up to the time when the new jail shall have been constructed.

Section 3. A Deed of the Levy Court Commissioners Title. how of Sussex County upon resolution of said Levy Court Commissioners executed and acknowledged by its Presi. dent and attested by the Clerk of the Peace shall pass title to said jail property at Georgetown, in Sussex County.

Approved March 7, A. D. 1913.