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viding for a general school tax; third, to take such steps
as will insure that the schools shall be kept open until the
new system is fully inaugurated; fourth, that in the opin-
ion of the association a thorough system of supervision is
necessary; and lastly, that it is inconsistent with the dig-
nity of the State of Maryland to depend upon other States
for teachers, and it is necessary to provide for the educa-
tion of teachers within her own borders by normal schools
and other agencies.
Mr. McMaster presented a petition from W. J. S. Clarke
and 52 other citizens of Worcester county, in opposition
to the new county scheme.
Mr. Barnes, from the committee on public works and
corporations, made a report constituting the Governor,
Comptroller and Treasurer a board of public works.
The report provides that unless the General Assembly
of this State shall otherwise direct by law, the trustees
named in a deed of mortgage from the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company to Phineas Janney and others, exe-
cuted on the 5th day of June, 1848, shall be empowered
until the first Monday in June 1883, to cast the vote of the
State of Maryland as a stockholder in the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company at all meetings of the stockholders
of said company: Provided, however, that no person shall
be chosen as president of the said company who shall not
have been for five years a citizen of Maryland and pro-
vided further, that of the six directors authorized to be
elected by the charter of said company, five shall have
been for five years citizens of Maryland, and three of
them residents of the counties of Allegany, Washington,
Frederick or Montgomery, and one a resident of the Dis-
trict of Columbia.
The report also authorizes the Board of Public Works
to exchange the State's interest as stockholder and cred-
itor in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for an
equal amount of the bonds or registered debt now owing
by the State, but in so doing shall exchange all the pre-
ferred stock first; (and the number of directors which
the State now has in said company shall remain until the
interest which the State has therein shall be disposed of, )
and the said board is authorized, subject to such regula-
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