ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 691

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act, be and the same is hereby repealed. Approved April 4, 1870.	Inconsistent repealed.
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AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County, at their next annual levy, to levy on the taxable property of said county a sum of money, to be applied to the founding and support of Schools for Colored Children in said county.
WHEREAS, the total amount of taxes paid for school purposes by the colored people of Queen Anne's County, during the years eighteen hun- dred and sixty-five, eighteen hundred and sixty- six, and eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, was not set apart for, and applied to, the purposes of founding and supporting schools for colored chil- dren, as then provided by law, but was paid over to the Board of School Commissioners of said county, and by them applied to the support of schools for white children; therefore,		Preamble.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of said county be and they are hereby authorized, at their next annual levy, to levy upon the taxable property of said county such sum of money as shall be equal to the sum of the taxes paid by the colored people of said county, for school purposes, during the years eighteen hundred and sixty-five, eigh- teen hundred and sixty-six, and eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and misapplied as aforesaid, to be paid to and received by the Board of School Com- missioners of said county, and to be by them ap- plied in the exercise of their best discretion to the founding and support of schools for colored chil- dren in said county.		Levy for taxes paid.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved April 4, 1870.		In force.