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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

erect a bridge across the head waters of Town
Creek, from some point on the shore of said creek,
in the town of Oxford, at or near the, intersection
of said shore with the line of the street on the
south side of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 28, 1868.

CHAPTER 208.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by resolution thirty-four, passed Feb-
ruary seventeenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-
two, laws of eighteen hundred and thirty-one, the
Treasurer of the Western Shore was directed to
equalize the donations granted to academies and
schools, so as to give to each county the annual
sum of eight hundred dollars, and by resolution
thirty-eight, laws of eighteen hundred and thirty-
five, the said Treasurer was further directed to
pay over the said sum of eight hundred dollars to
the " Patapsco Female Institute," which sum was
annually paid as directed, until the year eighteen
hundred and sixty. And whereas, by an Act
passed January thirteenth, eighteen hundred and
forty-three, laws of eighteen hundred and forty-
two, chapter five, the Trustees of the "Patapsco
Institute" were authorized to raise the net sum of
fifteen thousand dollars, by drawing a scheme of
a lottery or by selling the same, and it was further
provided, that when the said Trustees had suc-
ceeded in raising the sum of fifteen thousand dol-
lars, the Treasurer should cease to pay to them the
annual sum of eight hundred dollars as aforesaid.
And whereas, the "Patapsco Institute" did suc-
ceed in raising the sum of fifteen thousand dollars,
and the annual payment of eight hundred dollars
to them has ceased from the year eighteen hundred
and sixty to eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in-