2018

KENT COUNTY.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to provide for the Education
of Poor Children in Kent, Talbot, Cecil, Anne Arundel, and Montgo-
mery Counties.— 1817, ch. 49.

Property in
Kent not
assessed to

$300, to be
exempt
from tax.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the property. of no person, lying and being in Kent county,
shall be liable to be taxed for the purposes mentioned in the
act, entitled, an act to provide for the education of poor chil-
dren in Kent, Talbot, Cecil, Anne Arundel and Montgomery
counties, unless the assessable property of such person, lying
in Kent county, shall be assessed to the amount of three hun-
dred dollars, any provisions in the said act to the contrary not-
withstanding.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to provide for the
Education of Poor Children in Kent, Talboi, Cecil., Anne Arundel and
Montgomery Counties. — 1820, ch. 86.

Poor chil-
dren to have
three years
education
at public
charge.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That every poor child above eight years of age, whose parents
or those under whose care he or she may be, are unable to pay
for the tuition of such child, shall have three years education
at the public charge, including the length of time that such
child may have been educated at the public expense prior to
the passage of this act ; the said three years tuition to be paid
for, either under the provisions of the act to which this is an
additional supplement, or the act, entitled, an act for the distri-
bution of a certain fund for the purpose of establishing free
schools in the several counties therein mentioned, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and sixteen.

Trustees to
report time
they have
been so
educated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the trustees for the educa-
tion of poor children, appointed or to be appointed under the
act to which this is an additional supplement, in making their
annual reports to the levy court, shall state in each the length
of time which each child reported by them may have been
educated at the public expense.

Accounts of
teachers to
be proved,
&c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the accounts of no teacher
shall be passed or paid unless the same shall be proved by him
or her in the usual manner of proving open accounts, by oath
or affirmation, which probate shall be endorsed on or annexed
to the said accounts, unless in case of death of the teacher,
when a certificate from the trustee of the sub-division wherein
the teacher may have kept school, stating that he believes the
said account to be correct, shall be sufficient without a probat.

When
proved, to
be present-
ed, &c. for
inspection.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That when the account is proved
as aforesaid, it shall be presented to the trustee of the sub-
division wherein the teacher may hold his school, for inspec-
tion, and if he believes the same to be correct, he shall endorse
a certificate thereon to that effect, after which the president of