DORCHESTER COUNTY.

2389

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the levy court of Charles
county, at its annual session for the laying of the county levy
of said county, be and it is is hereby authorized and required
upon the receipt of the report of the trustees of the poor of said
county, of the probable amount necessary for the relief and
support of the poor, both in and out of the poor-house of said
county, to levy the same upon the assessable property of said
county, in the name of the trustees of the poor of Charles
county, payable to them or their order ; Provided, the same
shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars.

Levy court
to make
assessment

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That so much of the act, to
which this is a supplement, and all other acts or parts of acts
as authorize the levy court of Charles county to grant pensions,
be and the same is hereby repealed.

Repeal.

DORCHESTER COUNTY.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to provide for the
Public Instruction of Youth in Primary Schools throughout this State,
passed December session, 1837, ch. 206, so far as it relates to Dorches-
ter County.— 1839, ch. 148.

WHEREAS, in section six of the supplement to the act to
which this act is an additional supplement, it is enjoined that
each school district in Dorchester county, shall provide a
school-house ; And whereas, several of the school districts in
said county have failed to comply with the requisitions of this
said 6th section, and have, in consequence, been denied the
benefit of the money in the hands of the treasurer of the school
fund for said county, and which money is now in the hands of
the said treasurer, for the benefit of the above named districts;
therefore,
SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the commissioners
of each school district in Dorchester county, who have not, for
want of a school-house or houses in said district or districts,
or from other causes, drawn from the hands of the treasurer of
the school fund for said county, the amount due the said dis-
trict or districts, be, and they are hereby authorized to draw
from the hands of the said treasurer, the several amounts due,
or to become due to the said districts; and when the district or
districts are still in want of a school-house or houses, then
and in that case, the school commissioners for said district or
districts, be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to
purchase for said district or districts, a lot or lots of ground in
the most convenient place or places, reference always being
hod to the convenience of the majority of the pupils to be edu-

Preamble

Commis-
sioners for
each school
district au-
thorized to
draw on
treasurer of
school fund.