Preamble.
Visitors appointed,
and
invested with
the same
Powers, as
Visitors of other
County
Schools.
The Duties,
&c. appropriated
for the
Support of
Schools, to be
divided into
13 Parts; of
which Worcester
County
School to
have one. |
WHEREAS, since the making an Act of Assembly of this Province,
entitled, An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, and erecting
Schools in the several Counties within this Province, the County
of
Somerset, in the said Act mentioned, hath been divided, and
a new County
erected thereout, by the Name of Worcester County. And
whereas it seems
highly necessary, that the said new County should have and enjoy the
same
Benefit and Advantage in a County School, as the other Counties within
this
Province; It is humbly prayed that it may be Enacted;
II. And be it
Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by
and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and
the Upper and
Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That
the Reverend
Mr. Patrick Glasgow, Col. John Scarborough, Capt.
John Purnell, Capt. Thomas
Robins, Capt. William Lane, Major John Selby, and
Col. James Martin,
be, and are hereby nominated, appointed, and named Visitors for Worcester
County School aforesaid, and are hereby invested with the same Powers
and
Authorities for discharging the several Offices, Duties and Trusts,
reposed in,
and required of the Visitors, as well in the above-recited Act mentioned,
as
in the Supplementary Act relating thereto, in as full and ample Manner
to
all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, as if the said Worcester County
had been
a County at the Time of making the above-recited Acts, and had been
particularly
and expressly mentioned therein.
III. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the Money
arising within this Province for the Use of County Schools, from and
after the Twenty-ninth Day of September next, that shall come
into the Public
Treasurers Hands, shall be divided into Thirteen equal Parts, and that
the Treasurers in whose Hands such Money lies, are hereby required
to make
due Payment of one of those Thirteen Parts, or Dividends of Money,
that
shall come into their Hands for eh Uses aforesaid, after the said 29th
Day of
September, to the Visitors of the said Worcester County
School, and their Successors,
or the major Part of them, or their Orders, whensoever they shall
have Occasion to draw on such Treasurers for the same: And the
Visitors
aforesaid, and their Successors, 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 the said Worcester
County
School,
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN.
THOMAS BACON.
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