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KENT COUNTY.

deemed illegal, for want of notice, as required by the acts now
in force, signed by the commissioners or inspectors, or trustees
or taxable inhabitants, or for want of regular and formal ad-
journment in the proceedings of the primary or other meetings
of the taxable inhabitants, commissioners and inspectors, or
trustees ; Provided, notice shall have been given by the per-

Except

sons properly authorized, of the time and place of such meet-
ing, unless it plainly appears, that by such defective notice, or
informal adjournment, some undue advantage was intended to
be taken of the white male taxable votes of the district.

School dis-
tricts in-
corporated
and em-
powered.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted. That each organized school dis-
trict shall be a corporation, by the name of school district, in
———— district of Kent county, No. ———, (the blanks to be
filled by appropriate numbers,) with power to take and hold,
by devise, bequest, and donation, real and personal estate, not
exceeding, in clear annual income, five hundred dollars, for
the use of the primary school in said district, and may alien
and sell the same, when, in the opinion of the trustees of said
district, it will be for the interest and advantage of the primary
school in said district, and invest the money arising from the
sale, in some safe and profitable stock, and the dividends re-
ceived from the same, apply to the use of such primary school,
and in their corporate name, prosecute and maintain actions for
injury done to the grounds, houses, property, school-houses,
appurtenances, and furniture, and may sue for, and receive, all
moneys due them, or for real and personal property, to which
they may be entitled.

Repeal.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That so much of the act of
eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter one hundred and
sixty-two, and the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-three,
chapter one hundred and thirteen, as may be inconsistent with
or repugnant to the provisions of this act, so far as the same
relates to Kent county, be, and the same are hereby repealed,
and that this act shall apply only to Kent county.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to provide for the Public
Instruction of Youth in Primary Schools, throughout this State, passed
at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter one
hundred and sixty-two, so far as the same relates to Kent County.
1835, ch. 303.

Levy court
to levy.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in place of the present mode of levying and collecting
taxes for the support of primary schools, in Kent county, the
levy court of said county shall be and they are hereby autho-
rized and required to levy at their next session and annually
thereafter, upon the real and personal property of Kent county,
a sum equal in amount to the net and clear sum of one hun-