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QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, aa Act to provide for the
Instruction of Youth in Primary Schools throughout this State,' passed
at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter one
hundred and sixty-two — 1837, ch. 161.

Clause re-
pealed as to
Q. Anne'a
county.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act all such parts of the act,
to which this is a supplement, as prohibits the admission of
white children into the primary schools, throughout this state,
above the age of fifteen years, be, and the same is hereby re-
pealed, so far as the same relates to Queen Anne's county.

AN ACT relating to Poor Children in Queen Anne's County. — 1837,
ch. 205.
Repealed by 1838, ch. 37.

AM ACT to unite the Primary School Districts number twenty-two and
twenty-three, in Queen Anne's County. — 1838, ch. 37.

Districts
united.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the primary school districts, number twenty-two and
twenty-three, in Queen Anne's county, from and after the pas-
sage of this act shall be united, and be a double primary school

School-
house
located.

district, and the school-house shall be erected at or near Ruths-
burgh, upon such a site as a majority of the taxable inhabitants
shall have already fixed upon, or may fix upon.

Seven
trustees.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the taxable inhabitants of
district number twenty-two shall annually elect three trustees,
and district number twenty-three shall also elect three trus-
tees, and one trustee shall be elected by the joint vote of the
taxable inhabitants of the said two districts, or double district
as united, which said election of trustees shall be at said school-
house, in the same manner as is now established by law tor the
regulation of primary schools in Queen Anne's county, and

Their
powers.

the seven trustees so elected, shall have full power to erect a
school-house necessary for the establishment and maintenance
of said school in the same manner and with the same effect us if
the said two districts or double district, were one district, and
transact all such other business as the primary school laws of
this state authorize or require.

Case of

children
too distant.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in case there should be any
children too far from the school-house of the united districts,
the trustees are authorized and required to have all such chil-
dren educated at a nearer school if there should be one, upon
the same terms as if they were educated in the district, and the
trustees of an adjoining district shall receive them into their
school, to be paid for out of the funds of the double district.

Payment
over of
school
dividends.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of the
school fund for Queen Anne's county shall pay over to the
trustees elected as above directed, the full dividend of the two