| CHARLES RIDGELY, OF HAMPTON, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
census of the poor children above eight years of age within his
sub-division, whose parents or those under whose care they may
be are unable to pay for the tuition of such children, and said
census shall be reported to the levy court of the said counties as
soon as may be by the said trustees. |
1816.
CHAP. 241. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the levy court
of said counties
be and they are hereby authorised and directed, to levy and assess
on the assessable property of the said counties, annually, the sum
of twelve dollars for each child included in the census reported by
the said trustees, and the further sum of fifty dollars to be applied
as hereinafter directed, and the collector of the said county shall
collect the monies so levied as other county charges are collected,
and pay the same as is hereinafter directed.
By 1817, ch. 49, the property of no
person in Kent county, unless assessed to
300 dollars, to be taxed for the purposes of this act. |
Money to be levied. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said treasurer
of the school
funds shall demand and receive of the collector of said county, the
amount of said tax collected by him; Provided, he shall previously
give bond, with approved security, to the levy court of the said
counties, under such penalty as the said court shall require, for the
faithful application of the monies received by him to the purposes
hereinafter directed. |
To be paid to treasurer
of school
funds.
Proviso. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees
shall authorise
the parents, or such persons under whose care said children may
be, to send them to the nearest and most convenient school; Provided,
that each child shall be entered at the commencement of a
quarter of the year, and shall not be continued at school at the
public charge for a longer period than three years. |
Parents authorised
to send children to
school.
Proviso. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said trustees,
whenever a
neighbourhood shall be without a school, shall endeavour, in conjunction
with the people of the neighbourhood, to establish a school
therein. |
Trustees may establish
schools. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the first named
trustee in each
district shall be the president of the board of trustees in each district,
who may draw an order or orders of every six months on the
treasurer of the school funds, for the tuition of any child or children
authorised to be educated at the public charge, in the manner
heretofore directed. |
First named trustee
to be president. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said treasurer
shall settle his
accounts annually with the levy court of the said county, and the
said court shall allow him the sum of fifty dollars, authorised to be
levied as aforesaid, as a compensation for his services. |
Accounts to be settled
annually. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever the school
fund of this
state shall be distributed in the several counties herein mentioned,
then and in that case the levy court of said counties shall levy no
more money for the purposes aforesaid than will in addition to the
distributive of said counties make up a sum sufficient to pay the
tuition of the children aforesaid. |
When school fund
is distributed levy
to cease. |
10. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in Talbot county
no property
shall be taxed for the purposes mentioned in this act, unless it shall
appear to be assessed to the amount of two hundred dollars.
See note under section 3, as to Kent county. |
Tax in Talbot. |
