SCHOOLS.

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session, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter one hun-

dred and sixty-two, to the support of primary schools in said

county.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That the commissioners of pri-

Commis-

mary schools in said county, shall, on the first Mondays in

sioners to
apportion

April and October, in each and every year hereafter, apportion

and distri-

and distribute the moneys which may be placed under their

bute
moneys.

control, in manner and form as is provided by the aforesaid act,

to provide for the public instruction of youth in primary schools

throughout this slate.

AN ACT to provide for the Public Instruction of Youth in Primary Schools

in Anne Arundel County. — 1828, ch. 169.

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

Powers

That all the powers which are vested iu the taxable inhabitants

vested in
the free

of the school districts in Anne Arundel county, by the act to

white male

provide for the public instruction of youth in primary schools

citizens,
&c.

throughout this state, shall be, and the same are hereby vested

in the free white male citizens of this state, above the age of

twenty-one years, and actual residents of, and taxable in, said

districts, respectively ; and the resident inhabitants of any and

every school district in said county, so as aforesaid qualified,

shall have and exercise all the powers which are by the afore-

said act vested in the taxable inhabitants of said district, and iu

manner and form as the same might or could be exercised by

the aforesaid taxable inhabitants ; Provided nevertheless, that

Proviso.

no primary school meeting, to be held in the city of Annapolis,

shall be considered as a legal meeting, unless a majority of the

inhabitants, qualified as aforesaid, be present thereat, and vote.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all tax to be voted by the

Tax voted

inhabitants of any and every school district in said county, un-

by the in-
habitants of

der and iu virtue of the aforesaid act, and of this act, shall be

districts to

levied on all the assessable property in said district, agreeably

be levied.

to the assessments of the last preceding county tax, excepting,

nevertheless, the property assessed to, and actually owned by,

free negroes.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of any and

Inhabitants

every school district in said county, so as aforesaid qualified,

of districts
to vote tax

assembled at any legal district meeting, shall and may have

to pay
teachers.

power to vote a tax on the assessable property in said district,

for payment of the salary of a teacher in said district, or by

contribution.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That where any land, in any

When no

school district in said county, may become charged for the pay-

personal
property

ment of any school tax, and the collector of such tax can find

can be

no personal property in said district liable for, or chargeable

found, lands
may be

with, the payment of the same, the said collector shall be, and

charged.