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An Act to supply some Defects in the Act, entitled, An Act* for the
Encouragement of Learning, and erecting Schools in the several
Counties within this Province; and also to explain an Act, enti-
tled, An Actf for laying an additional Duty of Twenty Shillings
Current Money per Poll on all Irish Servants being Papists, to
prevent the Growth of Popery by the Importation of too great a
Number of them into this Province; and also the additional Duty
of Twenty Shillings Current Money per Poll on all Negroes; for
raising a Fund for the Use of Public Schools within the several
Counties of this Province.
Whereas by the Act, entitled, An Act for the Encouragement of
Learning, and erecting Schools in the several Counties within this
Province, Direction and Powers are given for the Nomination and
Choice of any Person or Persons, in the Room and Place of any
Visitor or Visitors, dying, or removing out of the County; but no
Provision is made by the said Act, for the turning out and supply-
ing the Place of any Visitor or Visitors; by which Means several
Inconveniencies, and much Damages have, and may happen to the
Schools: For Remedy whereof,
II. Be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gover-
nor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Au-
thority of the same, That in case any of the Visitors of the said
Schools, shall hereafter wilfully and obstinately refuse or neglect
to meet, and be present, at any of the Times appointed for the Meet-
ing of the said Visitors, so that the necessary Affairs of the said
School or Schools cannot be transacted and directed, that then it
shall and may be lawful for the Visitors of each School, or the
major Part of such Visitors, who shall so meet, are hereby directed
and impowered to nominate and choose one or more of the prin-
cipal and better Sort of the Inhabitants of the County, into the Place
and Room of the said Visitor so refusing or neglecting as aforesaid,
which Person or Persons so elected and chosen, from Time to Time,
are always to be qualified in the same Manner as is directed for the
Qualification of Visitors, by the said recited Act.
III. And be it further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and
Consent aforesaid, That the Master of every Public School within
this Province, shall, and is hereby required to teach as many poor
Children gratis, as the Visitors, or the major Part of them, of the
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Chap. VIII
*1723, ch. 19
t1717, ch. 10
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