ASSESSMENT.

2089

ing, to levy and assess upon the taxable property of said
county, subject to the order of the said trustees, such sum or
sums of money as may be necessary to pay the annual salaries
of all said teachers, to be collected and paid over by the col-
lector of the county tax, to the said teachers respectively, as

Annual
levy to pay
them.

all other county charges now are ; Provided however, that no
sum or sums shall be paid by the said collector to the said
teachers, or any of them, without a previous order from the
said trustees, or a majority of them.

Order re-
quired.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said schools and school-
houses shall, in all respects, be deemed. and considered as free
schools for the education of all and every of the children of
the citizens of said county, without distinction, discrimination
or difference, and it shall and may be lawful for any parent to
send to said schools, or any of them, for education, any one or
more of their children, without any costs, expense, hindrance
or disturbance whatever.

Schools
shall be
free.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the surveyor of Prince
George's county, be, and he is hereby authorized and required
to assist the commissioners, mentioned in the first section of
this act, in dividing and laying out said county in convenient
school districts, as is herein before provided for, and the levy

Surveyor to
aid in dis-
tricting.

court of said county shall allow him as compensation for his
said services, any sum in their discretion not exceeding one
hundred dollars, to be levied on the assessable property in said
county.

Compensa-
tion.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted. That all former acts or parts of
acts, inconsistent with, or repugnant to the provisions of this
act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Repealing
clause.

QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY.

BOUNDARIES. 1706, ch. 3; 1773, ch. 10; 1826, ch. 148.

ASSESSMENT.
AN ACT for the Re-valuaiion of the Real and Personal Property in Queen
Anne's County.— 1832, ch. 263.
See 1812, ch. 191, ante page 1631.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the levy court for Queen Anne's county, are hereby autho-
rized and directed to meet at the county town immediately
after the passage of this act, or as soon thereafter as may be
practicable, and proceed agreeable to the provisions of an act
passed at November session, eighteen hundred and twelve,
262

Assessment
directed.