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ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.

he is hereby directed and required, to return to the trustees of

said district, at such time or times as said trustees shall require

or direct, a list of such lands, and the amount of taxes thereon

respectively due, and the names of the persons respectively

chargeable with the payment of the same; and the said trus-

tees shall thereupon have and exercise, in relation to said lands,

all the powers which might or could be exercised by the com-

missioners of the tax of any county in this state, in like cases,

in virtue of the act for the more effectual collection of the county

charges in the several counties in this state, passed at November

session, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, chapter ninety ;

and the collector of said school district shall have the same

powers and authority, and be subject to the same rules, regula-

tions and duties, in the premises, as by law appertain to the

office of the collector of the county charges in like cases.

Acts de-

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid act for the

clared
public and

public instruction of youth in primary schools throughout this

remedial.

state, and this act, be, and the same are hereby declared to be,

public and remedial acts, and shall be construed by all courts

of justice according to the equity thereof, and no proceedings of

the inhabitants, or of the trustees of any school district, shall

be set aside or adjudged to be void, for defect of form, or for

any irregularity therein, so as the requisitions of said acts are

substantially complied with.

Duty of

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the clerks to the commis-

clerk to the
commis-

sioners for Anne Arundel county, shall annually, without fee

sioners.

or reward, make out for the trustees of primary school district

in said county, or such of them as shall apply for the same,

copies from the assessment books of said county, of all the

assessable property in said district or districts.

Taxes voted

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That all taxes voted, or to be

at meeting

voted, at any primary school meeting, held or to be held in the

in Annapo-
lis to be

primary school district composed of the city of Annapolis, shall

levied
agreeably

be levied agreeably to the assessment list of said city ; and as

to assess-

often as a tax shall be voted by any primary school meeting in

ment list.

said city, and at the requisition of the trustees, the clerks of

said city shall, without fee or reward, furnish a copy of the

said assessment list to said trustees ; and the said trustees shall

have and exercise the same powers and process for receiving of

taxes, which shall be assessed to property held by non-resi-

dents, as are now had and exercised by the mayor, recorder,

aldermen and common council, of said city, for recovery of city

taxes in like cases.

Reports of

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the

money. &c.

trustees of each school district in said county, to report to the

to be made.

commissioners of primary schools, on or before the fifteenth

day of December in each and every year, the amount of money