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LAWS of MARYLAND.
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CHAP.
LXIV. |
clergy, passed at April session, seventeen hundred and thirty-seven;
another act,
entitled, An act for repairing the public roads in this province, passed
at October
session, seventeen hundred and fifty-three, and a supplementary act
thereto, passed
at February session, seventeen hundred and sixty-six; another act,
entitled, An
act for the amendment of the law, passed at November session, seventeen
hundred
and seventy-three, and a supplementary act thereto, passed at November
session, seventeen hundred and seventy-eight; another act, entitled,
An act for
the relief of insolvent debtors, passed at March session, seventeen
hundred and
seventy-four, and a supplement thereto, passed at November session,
seventeen
hundred and ninety-two; another act, entitled, An act to declare what
foreign
gold and silver coin shall be deemed the current money of the state,
passed at
November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-one; another act, entitled,
An
act concerning jurisdiction, passed at November session, seventeen
hundred and
eighty-five; another act, entitled, An act for the prevention of lotteries,
passed
at November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-two; also an act,
entitled,
A supplement to the act, entitled, An act for the preservation of the
breed of
fish, passed at November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-two;
also another
act, entitled, An act to regulate the inspection of tobacco, passed
at November
session, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, and the several supplementary
acts
thereto, passed November session, seventeen hundred and ninety; and
also an act,
entitled, A further additional supplement to an act to regulate the
inspection of
tobacco, and to continue certain parts of the sid act, and the supplementary
acts
thereto, passed at November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-five,
be and
they are hereby revived and continued until the twentieth day of October,
seventeen
hundred and ninety-eight, subject nevertheless to the operation of
any act
or acts of assembly which have passed since the said recited acts,
or either of
them. |
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CHAP. LXV.
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Passed December
31. |
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act for erecting a public
school in Frederick county. |
Preamble.
A school to be
founded, &c.
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WHEREAS by an act of assembly, passed in the year one thousand
seven hundred and sixty-three, entitled, An act for erecting a public
school in Frederick county, it is, among other things, enacted, 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 in the said act mentioned, who were
thereby
appointed visitors of the said school, viz. Colonel Thomas Cresap,
Mr. Thomas
Beatty, Mr. Nathan Magruder, Captain Joseph Chapline, Mr. John Darnall,
Colonel Samuel Beall, and the reverend Mr. Thomas Bacon, which said
visitors
were by the said act invested with certain rights, privileges, powers
and authorities:
And whereas the aforesaid visitors are dead, have removed from the
county, or have refused to act: And whereas by another act of
assembly, passed
in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine, entitled, An
act to appropriate
the half acre of ground therein mentioned to the use of the public
school in Frederick county, it is, amount other things, enacted, that
the justices
shall cause half an acre of the public ground in Frederick-town, as
mentioned
and described in the said last act, to be laid off and bounded, and
certificate
thereof returned and recorded, for the purposes mentioned and declared
in the
said act: And whereas agreeably to the first recited act the
acre of land has been
purchased, and agreeably to the last recited act the half acre of land
has been laid
off, bounded, and certificate thereof returned and recorded:
And whereas by the
active exertions and liberal endeavours of the inhabitants of Frederick
county a
commodious building for a seminary of learning has been erected and
nearly
completed,
II. Be
it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That there
shall be
founded a school, or seminary of learning, in Frederick-town, and Frederick
county, under such regulations and restrictions as are herein after
prescribed,
which shall be known by the name of Frederick County School. |
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