Preamble.
A Public
School to be
erected in
Frederick-Town.
Visitors,
to have Succession.
The dividend
of School
Money in the
Treasurers
Hands. |
WHEREAS, it is reasonable that Education should be extended
equally to the several parts of this Province, and that there should
be a Public School erected in Frederick County, as well as the
other Counties;
II. Be it therefore
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
in Order to the
Erecting and Building a House and other Conveniencies, for a County School,
there shall be One Acre of Land purchased in Frederick-Town, in
Frederick
County, by the Persons hereafter Named, who shall be Visitors of the
said
School, viz. Colonel Thomas Cresap, Mr. Thomas Beattys,
Mr. Nathan Magruder,
Captain Joseph Chapline, Mr. John Darnall, Colonel Samuel
Beall, and
the Reverend Mr. Thomas Bacon, which said Persons, so nominated
Visitors
for Frederick County School, shall qualify in the same Manner, and
by subject
to the same Penalties, and be invested with the same Rights, Privileges,
Powers and Authorities, as the Visitors of other County Schools within
this Province, and shall have Succession in like Manner.
III. And be it
further Enacted, That all of the Duties, Taxes, and Impositions
hereafter to be collected, and which, since the Twenty-ninth Day of
September last, have been Collected for the Use of the County Schools
within
this Province, there shall be paid by the Treasurers, to the Visitors aforesaid;
or their Order, an equal Dividend, by them to be applied and expended to
and for the purchasing of One Acre of Land as aforesaid, and Building
an
House and other Conveniencies as aforesaid, and to and for the Use and
Benefit
of the said School, in the like Manner as the Dividends due to the other
County Schools, is by Law directed to be applied.
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Passed 26th
Nov. 1763. |
A Supplementary Act to an Act, entitled, An Act for the speedy
and effectual
Publication of the Laws of this Province, and for the
Encouragement of
Jonas Green, of the City of Annapolis,
Printer. Lib. H.S. fol. 527. OBS.
N.B. The Time limited in
the Act of 1762, ch. 24, being too short for Printing the
Laws, &c. of this Session, on Account of the approaching bad Season,
Mr. Green was allowed
to Print the laws within four Months, and the Votes and Proceedings within
five Months, for
this Session of Assembly, only, and be thereon entitled to all the Benefits
of the said Law, as if
he had printed them within the Time therein limited. The Treasurer
of the Western Shore
was also directed to pay Mr. Green 9 l. 12 s. for
Two Record Books, by him furnished for the
Use of the Public.
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