Chap. 207.—An ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Russell
County to Borrow Money to Re-build the Court-house and Jail of said
County.

Approved March 15, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That it shall be s
lawful for the board of supervisors of Russell county to borrow |
money, to an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars, on 1
such terms, and at such rate of interest, not exceeding the j,
rate allowed by law, as said board may deem most expedient,
for the purpose of repairing or re-building the court-house and
jail of said county, recently destroyed by fire.

2. That to effect the loan in the first section provided for,
and for the faithful keeping and disbursing the money so
loaned to the uses and purposes herein provided for, it shall
be lawful for the said board of supervisors to make an order
at any adjourned or specially called meeting of said board
authorizing and requiring the county treasurer of said county
to borrow said sum or sums so needed for the purpose afore-
said at such several times as the same may be needed, and exe-
cute to the lender or lenders of said money a bond binding
the county of Russell to the payment thereof at such time or
times as may be agreed on, which bond, signed by the trea-
surer for and on behalf of the county, shall bind the county
therefor; and it shall be the duty of said treasurer to borrow
and receive said sum or sums of money as ordered to do by
said board, and hold and disburse the same on his official
responsibility therefor as hereinafter provided.

3. It shall be lawful for the board of supervisors of said
county to provide, by a general order, entered on their records,
how and on what authority the treasurer shall pay out said
money; and, in case of the failure of the treasurer to pay out
said money pursuant to said order, it shall and may be lawful
for said board of supervisors to recover judgment therefor
against said treasurer and his sureties, with ten per cent. dam-
age thereon, in the circuit or county court of said county, on
motion, five days’ previous notice of which shall be sufficient.

4, This act shall be in force and after its passage.