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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.

AN ACT for the encouragement of Primary Schools in Anne Arundel

County.-— 1827, ch. 173.

Repealed, save the 2d sec. by 1828, ch. 55.

School fund

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the school fund of Anne

to credit of
commis-

Arundel county, arising under the act to incorporate a company

sioners.

to make a turnpike road leading to Cumberland, and for the

extension of the charters of the several banks of the city of

Baltimore, and for other purposes, and its several supplements,

is hereby assigned and appropriated for the encouragement and

support of public instruction, and placed under the direction

and control of the commissioners of primary schools for said

county, and the treasurer of the western shore is hereby autho-

rized and directed, to place in the Farmers Bank of Maryland,

to the credit of the commissioners of primary schools aforesaid,

the dividends or profits arising on the school fund already in-

vested, and also all moneys which from time to time may here-

after be received into the treasury belonging to the school fund

of said county.

AN ACT to repeal part of an Act, entitled, an Act for the encouragement

of Primary Schools in Anne Arundel County. — 1828, ch. 55.

Repeal.

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

That the act for the encouragement of primary schools in Anne

Arundel county, passed at December session, eighteen hundred

and twenty-seven, chapter one hundred and seventy-three, ex-

cepting the second section thereof, be, and the same is hereby

repealed.

Moneys to

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the treasurer of the western

be invested.

shore be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to invest in

some safe and productive fund, so much of the moneys now in

the treasury to the credit of the school fund of said county, as

shall procure a capital or principal stock of five thousand dol-

lars, which said stock shall be held for the use and benefit of

primary schools in said county, and the dividends or profits

arising on said stock, as they arise, shall be deposited in the

Farmers Bank of Maryland, to the credit of the commissioners

of primary schools in said county.

Treasurer

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the treasurer of the western

to deposits

shore be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to deposite

moneys.

in the Farmers Bank of Maryland, to the credit of the aforesaid

commissioners, the residue of the moneys belonging to the

school fund of said county, which shall remain in the trea-

sury after making the aforesaid investment, which said residue,

and all other moneys deposited or to be deposited, to the credit

of said commissioners, shall be by them applied under the pro-

visions of the act to provide for the public instruction of youth

in primary schools throughout this state, passed at December