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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1796
Volume 105, Page 327  
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SYSTEM of EDUCATION.

    VIII.  And be it enacted, That the visitors and directors of each county shall
annually, on or before the first day of December in each year, return to the
general assembly an account of all sums by them received in virtue of this act,
the names of the persons to whom paid, for what use and how many poor
scholars have been educated, as also a state of the county schools, the name of
the teacher or teachers engaged, and the number and names of the scholars
actually at said county schools.

    IX.  And be it enacted, That the visitors and directors of each county shall
and they are hereby authorised to employ some person in each county as a clerk,

to keep and make out their proceedings and accounts; and the said respective
clerks shall be entitled to receive from the visitors and directors a sum not exceeding
fifteen dollars each.

    X.  And be it enacted, That the visitors and directors of the grammar school
of each county, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority to
direct that two boys of the most promising genius, belonging to the county, shall

always be property cloathed, boarded and educated, at the said grammar school,
provided the parents of such boys shall not be in circumstances to defray the expence
of the education of such boys.

    XI.  And be it enacted, That nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent
the visitors and directors of any county schools of any adjoining county appointed in
virtue thereof, from uniting, at any time, the county schools of such counties, and
from drawing and applying to the said schools, so united, the sum of money allowed
to such counties respectively, if this union shall take place by the consent of the
majority of the visitors and directors of each of said counties, signified in writing.

    XII.  And be it enacted, That the following persons shall be and are hereby
constituted and appointed visitors and directors of the several county schools in
their respective counties, to wit:  For Saint-Mary's county, -------------; Kent,
John Lambert Wilmer, George Wilson, James Pearce, Oliver Smith, James
Scott, John Thomas and Cuthbert Hall; Calvert, Thomas Parran, Charles

Williamson, Joseph Wilkinson, Frederick Skinner, Walter Smith, John Rawlings
and John Chesley; Charles, John Parnham, John Campbell, Francis
Digges, Daniel Jenifer, doctor John Hawkins, John Forbes and Francis Newman;
Baltimore, John Ireland, Patrick Allison, Thomas Jones, James Carroll,
John Tolly Worthington, Thomas Love and John Cromwell; Talbot, reverend
John Bowie, William Hayward, David Kerr, John Roberts, Samuel Chamberlaine,
James Goldsborough and doctor James Wilson; Cæcil, Thomas Moffit,
Tobias Rudulph, David Smith, Hezekiah Ford, William Ward and John
Hartshorne; Prince-George's, William Beans, Thomas Duckett, John Stewart,
Thomas Snowden, Walter Addison, William Baker and Robert Bowie; Queen-Anne's,
James Tilghman, Joshua Seney, reverend Samuel Keene, junior, Joseph
Hopper Nicholson, William Ringgold, junior, Richard Tilghman Earle and
James Holliday; Frederick, George Murdock, Richard Potts, Philip Thomas,
Baker Johnson, Francis Mantz, John McPherson and George Baer, junior;
Harford, John Archer, Jacob Hall, George Lucky, Samuel Hughes, James
Bond, of Joshua, Jesse Jarrett and Josias Carvill Hall; Somerset, John Done,
Levin Winder, George Robertson, associate justice, William Stone, Benjamin
F. A. C. Dashiell, John Oale and George Waters; Worcester, John Rankin,
David Ball, Ephraim King Wilson, Littleton Robins, John Selby Purnell, John
Holland and James Bacon; Dorchester, John Henry, William Vans Murray,
Josiah Bayly, John Eccleston, John Craigg, Thomas Woolford and Moses Lecompte;
Caroline, Samuel Keene, William Richardson, Matthew Driver, Henry
Downes, Joseph Richardson, Joshua Driver and Joseph Nichols; Montgomery,
Stephen Blumer Balch, Thomas Reed, Thomas Cramphin, Richard Wootton,
James Anderson, Zadock Magruder, junior, and Thomas Davis; Washington,
George Bower, George Smucker, George Rawhauser, Samuel Young, Elie
Williams, Nathaniel Rochester and Samuel Hughes; Allegany, Patrick Murdock,
Hanson Briscoe, John Lynn, Walter Brooke Beall, John Mitchell, John
Simkins and Thomas Cresap.


 

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