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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1839.

son may either be the sheriff of Howard district, or some other
person, as to the commissioners may appear most for the inte-
rest of the people of the district, and the said collector shall
in all respects qualify as collectors of the tax now do, in
Anne Arundel county.

Commis-
sioners of
the district
to appoint
commis-
sioners and
inspectors
of primary
schools.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of the
district be authorized and required to appoint nine of the inha-
bitants of said district, to be commissioners of primary schools
for the said district ; and also a suitable number of discreet
persons, not exceeding eighteen, who together with the com-
missioners, shall be inspectors of primary schools ; and the
said commissioners of primary schools, and said inspectors,
shall perform the same duties and be possessed of the same
authority, and be in all respects governed by the same laws,
within Howard district, that the commissioners of primary
schools and inspectors in Anne Arundel county are now to
perform, are possessed of, or are governed by.

Laws re-
specting
primary
schools in
Anne Arun-
del Co. to
be in force.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all laws respecting primary
schools, which are now in force in Anne Arundel county, shall
be applicable to, and in force in Howard district; and it shall
be the duty of the inspectors of primary schools in and for said
district, upon their appointment, to make such an arrangement
as will place so much of the fourth election district of Anne
Arundel county, as is within the limits of Howard district, into
one or more of the school districts of said Howard district, and
the said commissioners of the district shall have full power
and authority to carry into effect within said district, the laws
relating to primary schools, as they are now enforced in Anne
Arundel county.

$1,800 to
be annually
levied.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted. That the commissioners of How-
ard district, instead oflevying the sum of four thousand dollars
as is provided for by the second section of the act of eighteen
hundred and thirty, shall have authority, and it shall be their
duty to levy the sum of eighteen hundred dollars upon the
assessable property of said district, in the same manner, and
for the same purposes, within said Howard district, that the
said sum of four thousand dollars was levied upon and used
for Anne Arundel county — and shall distribute the same in
a similar mode.

Money
payable out
of slate
treasury for
support of
schools to
be appor-
tioned, &c.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted. That the moneys which may
hereafter be payable out of the state treasury for the support
of primary or free schools in Anne Arundel county, shall be
paid to the commissioners of primary schools in Anne Arundel
county, and to the commissioners of primary schools in Howard
district, in the following proportions, that is to say, three-fifths
parts thereof to the commissioners of primary schools in Anne
Arundel county, and two-fifths parts thereof to the commis-
sioners of primary schools in Howard district.