Their Power
and Duty in
founding other
Schools,
 
 
 
 

first at Oxford,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

and then in
the several
Counties.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Supplicatory
Act of
1694, ch. 31,
repealed.

    XII.  And further, That it may please your Majesty to grant to the said
Rector, Governors and Visitors aforesaid, of the said Free-School or Schools
aforesaid, that as soon as they shall be enabled by any Gifts, Grants, Pensions,
Donations, or Incomes, of any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or other Estate
whatsoever, real or personal, exceeding the Sum of One Hundred and Twenty
Pounds per Year, allotted and allowed for Support and Reparations of the
first Free-School at Severn, as aforesaid; that then, as they shall be enabled
as aforesaid, the said Rector, Governors and Visitors, shall proceed to erect,
found and build, one other Free-School at the Town of Oxford, on the Eastern
Shore of this Province, in Talbot County, or in such other Place of the
same County, as to the said Rectors, Governors and Visitors aforesaid, shall
seem most expedient.  And, after the same shall be built, founded and established,
to appropriate and apply to the said second Free-School (out of the Treasure
accruing to them for the Benefit and Advantage of Free-Schools aforesaid,
over and above the One Hundred Twenty Pounds per Year, allowed
as aforesaid, to the first Free-School) the like Sum of One Hundred
and Twenty Pounds per Year, for the Benefit, Advantage and Support of
such second Free-School, and shall and may place a Master, Usher, and Scribe
therein, as in the other first Free-School, as aforesaid; and shall, in all Respects,
be under the same Benefits, Privileges, Injunctions and Restrictions,
as the said first Free-School.

    XIII.  And also, after the said second Free-School is built, erected, founded
and furnished, the said Rectors, Governors and Visitors, shall as fast as they
shall be enabled as aforesaid, proceed to the Erecting other and more Free-Schools
in this Province, That is to say, in every County of this Province at
present, one Free-School.  And shall and may be impowered to establish,
constitute, enjoin and restrain, to and under the same Benefits, Advantages,
Instructions and Restrictions as aforesaid, and appropriate and apply such and
so much of the said Revenue, not before disposed or ordained to each Free-School,
as to them shall seem most convenient and expedient, not exceeding
One Hundred and Twenty Pounds per Annum, as aforesaid.

    XIV. And be it hereby Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That a * Supplementary
Act for Free-Schools, made at a Session of Assembly, begun and
held at the City of St. Mary's, the Twenty-first Day of September 1694, be
and is hereby utterly repealed and made void.
                                           Examined and Compared with the Record, REVERDY GHISELIN,
                                                                                                                        THOMAS BACON.
    * Thus it stands in the Record.
    N.B.  The Powers in §. 12 and 13, having never been carried into Execution, a new Act
        was made 1723, ch. 19, incorporating Visitors in each County.