Volume 3
Public Law 14–CXXX
to enable the Levy Court of the county of Alexandria to lay a tax for the purpose of defraying the expense of erecting a jail and courthouse.
Approved April 27, 1816
Statutory text
An Act
to enable the Levy Court of the county of Alexandria to lay a tax for the purpose of defraying the expense of erecting a jail and courthouse.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
A tax to be laid on the county of Alexandria for building a jail and courthouse in Alexandria.
United States of America, in Congress assembled,
That it shall and may be lawful for the levy court of the county of Alexandria, in the District of Columbia, to raise, by a tax upon the taxable inhabitants of the said county, a sum sufficient to defray the expense of building a jail and courthouse, for the said county, which sum shall be appropriated to the erection of such buildings accordingly under the direction of the said court.
Approved, .