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Bacon's Laws of Maryland
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CHARLES CALVERT, Esq; Governor.
1723.
Time, for the future, as the Circumstances will admit of, as may give due
Encouragement to one or more Masters, and be necessary and useful for the
improving and perpetuating such School.

    IX.  An further, the Visitors of every Schools, after it shall be erected,
are hereby required to meet thereat, at least Four Times a Year, to inspect,
into and consider of, and direct the necessary Affairs thereof.

    X.  And for the enabling the Visitors of the Schools as aforesaid, for the
purchasing of Lands, and erecting of Schools, and encouraging of Masters
in manner as aforesaid, Be it Enacted, that the Money already raised for
the use of County Schools, and that is now in the Public Treasurers Hands,
being divided into h Twelve equal Parts, answering to the Number of County
Schools now to be erected, the Treasurers, in whose Hands such Money,
lies, are hereby required to make due Payment of one of those Twelve Parts
or Dividends of Money in their Hands, to the Visitors of the Schools for
each County, or the major Part of them, or their Orders, whensoever they
shall have Occasion to draw on such Treasurers for the same; and the like
Payment shall, from Time to Time, be made to the Visitors as aforesaid, by
the Treasurers, of the lie Dividends that shall hereafter arise, due to such
Schools, and come to their Hands; and the Visitors of the Schools as aforesaid,
are hereby impowered to dispose of all such Money as they shall receive
from Time to Time, in such manner as may be most for the Encouragement
and Advancement of such School.
    h  by 1746, ch, 7, a School was erected in Worcester  County; and the Whole directed to be
        divided into 13 Parts, of which the new erected School to have One Part.

    XI.  And be it likewise Enacted, That the Visitors of each School, to be
constituted, qualified and incorporated in Manner aforesaid, or the major
Part of them and their Successors, be, and are hereby enabled to take, hold,.
and enjoy, and be apt and capable in Law, for taking, holding and enjoying,
all Manors, Lands, Tenements, Inheritances, Franchises and Possessions whatsoever,
Spiritual or temporal, to the Value of Fifteen Hundred Pounds Sterling,
and all other Goods, Chattels, Money and personal Estate whatsoever, of
the Gift of any person whatsoever, that already hath, or hereafter shall be,
willing to bestow them for the Use of the said Schools, or any other gifts,
Grants, Assignments, Legacies or Appointments of the same, or any of them,
or any other Goods whatsoever; to be applied by the Visitors for the Uses and
in Manner as aforementioned:  And the said Visitors are likewise hereby authorized
to receive all and every such Fines and Forfeitures as have already arisen
due, or that shall hereafter arise due to their several County Schools, in whose
Hands soever the same are lodged, or hereafter shall be lodged, and upon Refusal
or Delay of Payment thereof, that then they may, at their Discretion,
exercise the Powers and Authorities, (given them as a Body Politic by this
Act) for the Recovery of the same; the which Fines and Forfeitures are
likewise to be applied to the uses and in Manner aforesaid.

    XII.  Provided always, That the Visitors to be appointed for every School
as aforesaid, and their Successors, from Time to Time, are hereby impowered
to appoint a Register, and allow him a reasonable Salary, who is hereby
obliged to keep a fair Account of all their Proceedings, and of the Applications 
by them to be made of all Monies, Tobaccoes, or other Commodities,
or Matters, or Things whatsoever, that shall come to their Hands by virtue 
of the Authorities given them by this Act, which shall at all Times hereafter
be subject to the Examination and Correction of the General Assembly of
this Province.

    XIII.  And be it further Enacted, That every Person by this Act appointed
as a Visitor of the County Schools, or that shall hereafter be nominated and
 

CHAP.
  XIX.



Visitors to
meet 4 Times
a Year.


The County
Schools to
have an equal
Share of the
Money appropriated
to 
their Use, and
the Treasurers
to pay the
same to the
Visitors of
each County,


to be by them
disposed of
for the Encouragement,
&c. of such
Schools.





The Visitors
of each
School enabled
to hold
Lands, &c.
to the Value
of 1500 l.
Sterling, and
all other Personal
Estate
given to the
Use of
Schools,

and to recover
all Fines
arising due to
their several
County 
Schools.





To appoint a
Register, and
allow him a 
Salary;


Their Proceedings
subject
to Examination.
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