378 Assembly Proceedings, March 23-April 19, 1774.

Liber R. G.
1774

erend Henry Addison Josias Beall Robert Tyler Joseph Sim Thomas
Contee and Doctor Richard Brooke for Prince Georges County
Shall be Trustees for the said School and Shall Qualify in the same
manner and be Subject to the Same Penalties and be invested with
the same Rights Priviledges, Powers and Authorities to every
Intent and Purpose as the Visitors of the other County Schools within
this Province and Shall have Succession in like manner so that every
Vacancy be filled up with a resident of that County wherein the
said Vacancy may happen That an Equal Number of Trustees
residing in each County may be kept up and any ffifteen or more
of the said Trustees with or without the said President shall be and
are hereby impowered to meet at the said school from Time to time
and they or the Major Part of them so met may do any Act matter
or Thing which the said President and Trustees might do any Law
to the Contrary Notwithstanding

[Of all
Duties, &c.
to be col-
lected for
County
Schools, 3
equal Divi-
dends to be
paid to the
Trustees.]

And be it enacted that of all duties taxes and Impositions here-
after to be collected for the use of the County Schools within this
Province there shall be paid by the Treasurers of the Western and
Eastern Shores to the Trustees aforesaid or the Major Part of
them or their order three Equal Dividends by them to be applied
and expended to and for the use and Benefit of the said School in like
manner as the Dividends due to the other County Schools are by
Law directed to be applied

[Trustees to
receive all
Subscrip-
tions, and
Monies in
the Hands
of Visitors
chosen under
a former
Act.]

And Whereas for defraying Part of the Expence and Charge of
Building the said School Sundry the Inhabitants of the said
Counties of Saint Marys Charles and Prince Georges have sub-
scribed divers Sums of Money and Whereas there is a consider-
able sum of Money in the Hands of the Visitors of the said Schools
Chosen under a former Act of Assembly for the said Counties of
Saint Marys, Charles and Prince Georges Be it enacted that the Trus-
tees Constituted by this Act or the Major Part of them shall and they
are hereby Impowered to receive all Monies by the said Persons Sub-
scribed and all Monies in the hands of the Visitors Chosen under the
said former Law and such subscribers and Visitors are hereby directed
to Pay the Monies in their hands and their Several Subscriptions to
the Trustees appointed by this Act, and in Case of Neglect or refusal
to pay the said Trustees or the Major Part of them may and they are
hereby Authorised to sue for recover and receive the same in an Ac-
tion of Trespass on the Case in which it shall be Sufficient to Declare
for so much Money had and received by the Defendant for the use of

[To make
Sale of the
Schools in
St. Mary's,
Charles, &
Prince-
George's
Counties,
&c.]

the Plaintiffs

And be it enacted that the said Trustees residing in each County
or the Major Part of them are hereby Authorised empowered and
required to make sale by Way of Public Vendues of their said schools
respectively of Saint Marys Charles and Prince Georges Counties
with the land thereto belonging to the best and highest Bidder and