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ALLEGANY COUNTY.

School

tion in the said school districts respectively ; that every child in

regulation

the district shall be admitted into the school upon a perfect

equality, and the education of no one shall be paid for or con-

sidered as poor scholars.

Trustees'

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said trustees shall make

report.

return in writing to the said commissioners at their regular

annual meetings, setting forth the amount of money received by

them in their respective school districts from individual sub

scnbers, the names of such subscribers, the amount of their

subscriptions respectively, the number of scholars taught, and

the length of time occupied in the same, and the amount paid

by them for tuition, and the commissioners aforesaid shall cause

Published

this act to be published three weeks in the newspapers in the

town of Cumberland, in the month of May next, that the

citizens of Alleganv county may have a knowledge hereof, and

thereby have it in their power to petition the commissioners of

said county for the adoption or rejection of said law, and the

cost for the printing shall be paid by the county.

Commis-

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall have no power

sioners to
accept this

or effect in said county, unless the same shall have been ap

law or it is
void.

proved of by the commissioners of said county, and accepted by

them at their next annual meeting in August next, in which

And publish

event they shall give notice by publication in some newspaper

in said county, and to take all such other steps as they may

deem necessary and proper to carry this act into effect

Repeal

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That all laws of this state incon-

sistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are

hereby repealed.

AN ACT to provide for the Pubhc Instruction of Youth in Allegany

County —1838, ch 204

Preamble

WHEREAS, the validity of an act, passed at December ses-

sion, eighteen hundred and thirty six, chapter one bundled and

six, entitled, an act to promote education in Ailegany county,

by means of the poor school fund of said county ; depended

on the decision of the county commissioners, to be declared at

the ensuing August meeting of said commissioners , And

whereas, the said commissioners did at the specified August

meeting, decide against said law, rendering all subsequent pro-

ceedings therein illegal, and of consequence, null and void;

therefore,

Five trus-

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,

tees to be
appointed

That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of Allegany

annually in

county, at their first regular meeting after the approval of this

each school
district.

act, and annually thereafter, to appoint five discreet persons in

Their duty

each school district, whose duty it shall be, to provide suitable

prescribed,

school-houses in their respective school districts, by individual