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greater or less amount, as may be decided by the stockholders.
Sec. 222. Notice of such meeting of stockholders shall be given in the manner required by Section seventy-one, of said Article twenty-six of the Code of Public General Laws ; and the proceedings thereafter shall be similar to those prescribed in Sections seventy-two and seventy-three of said Ar- ticle twenty-six of the Code of Public General Laws.	Meeting of stockholders.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved April 4, 1870.	In force.
CHAPTER 311.
AN ACT to repeal an Act passed at the January Session of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, en- titled, "Public Education," providing for a general system of Free Public Schools for the State of Maryland, and to repeal all laws incon- sistent therewith, and to re-enact the same with amendments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Act passed at the session, of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled, "Public Education," providing a general system of Free Public Schools for the State of Maryland, and to tepeal all laws inconsistent therewith, be and the same is hereby repealed, and re-enacted so as to read as follows :		Repealed and re-enacted.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That there shall be throughout the State of Maryland a general sys- tem of Free Public Schools, according to the pro- visions of this Act.		Free schools.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be added to the Code of Public General Laws, under the title, "Public Education," and that all existing laws inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.		Addition to Code.