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QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY.

forth in the same a full and distinct description of the land or
real estate and improvements, if any thereon, as valued by them
or either of them, as the case may be, and all other matters and
things connected with the said valuation and assessment, and
the performance of the duties required of them by this act, and
to the said copy, fairly to be written out as aforesaid, they shall
subscribe their names and thereunto affix their seals, and they
shall deposite the same in the office of the clerk of the county
court of the said county, and it shall be the duty of the said
clerk to preserve a record of the said proceedings ; and a copy
of such record certified by the said clerk, under the seal of the
said court, shall be evidence of all matters therein stated, in the
same manner as certified copies of other records are evidence.

Legal title;
location;
exception.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in the event of an appeal
and the inquisition of a jury, as provided by this act, the
amount of damages for the land or real estate, and improve-
ments, so valued and assessed as aforesaid being paid, or
offered to be paid as aforesaid, the said trustees in their
corporate character as aforesaid, shall thenceforward forever
thereafter be considered the lawful owner of the said land and
improvements as aforesaid, and all right, title, interest and
estate therein, at law or in equity, shall be vested in the said
trustees for the purpose aforesaid ; Provided, that it shall not
be lawful to locate the said site within the cultivated fields,
orchards or gardens, nor within a quarter of a mile of any
dwelling of any person or persons whatever, without the assent
of the proprietor of such field, orchard, garden, or dwelling, as
the case may her.

AN ACT to repeal an Act, entitled, an additional Supplement to an Act,
entitled, an Act for the distribution of a certain Fund for the purpose of
establishing Free Schools in the several Counties therein mentioned, and
for other purposes. — 1828, ch. 35. .

Act re-
pealed.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the act passed December session, eighteen hundred and
twenty-seven, chapter forty-three, entitled, an additional sup-
plement to an act, entitled, an act for the purpose of establish-
ing free schools in the several counties therein mentioned, be
and the same is hereby repealed.

Interest on
sums in-
vested to be
applied.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of the
school fund for Queen Anne's county, be and they are hereby
authorized and required, to apply the interest of the sums in-
vested by them in bank stock, and the funds which they may
hereafter receive from the treasurer of the western shore, to
the education of the poor children in said county, according to
the provisions of the act passed December session, eighteen
hundred and sixteen, chapter two hundred and fifty-six, estab-