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received, the number of children educated, the amount given

to their teacher, &c. and it shall be the duty of the commis-

sioners of primary schools, annually to report to the legislature,

AN ACT, entitled, a Supplement to the Act to provide for the Public

Instruction of Youth in Primary Schools, in Anne Arundel County.—

1829, ch. 146.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That

Right to

from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful for all

vote.

free white citizens, of the age of twenty-one years, to vote for,

or against, the establishment of Primary Schools, in any school

district in which they may hold real property.

AN ACT regulating the manner of Levying on the Assessable Property in

Anne Arnndel County, for the support of Primary Schools in said

County. — 1830, ch. 97.

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

Trustees

That the trustees of any primary school district in Anne Arun-

may require
payment.

del county, shall be and they are hereby authorized, in their

discretion, to require from any child attending school the pay-

ment of any sum of money not exceeding twenty-five cents a

month, to be applied to the payment of the expenses of the

school; and in the exercise of this power the trustees may from

time to time increase or diminish the sum so to be paid, or dis-

continue the payment thereof altogether, and may graduate the

payments according to the ability of the children, and the exi-

gencies of the school.

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

Levy

Arundel county, at their next meeting to make the county levy,

authorized.

and annually thereafter, shall be and they are hereby required,

to levy on the assessable property of said county, other than the

property liable to taxation in the city of Annapolis, the sum of

four thousand dollars, for the support of primary schools in said

county, which said sum of money shall be collected by the

county collector, and deposited 111 the Farmers Bank of Mary-

land to the credit of the commissioners of primary schools in

Anne Arundel county, or paid to the orders of said commis-

sioners.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of primary

Distribution

schools in said county shall, at their meetings in October, or

of money.

thereafter, make distribution of the aforesaid moneys among all

the primary school districts in said county, exclusive of the city

of Annapolis, and shall pay over to the trustees of any district

the money distributed to said district, upon production of the

certificates and proofs required by law to authorize payment of

other moneys distributable amongst the primary school districts ;

Provided nevertheless, that the said commissioners of primary

Proviso.

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