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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Appropriat'n.

missioners, of Worcester county, be and they are
hereby authorized and empowered to use and appro-
priate, out of the permanent free school fund of said
county, money to an amount not exceeding five thou-
sand dollars, towards building, repairing, and pur-
chasing school houses in said county.

Repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts of Assembly
or any parts thereof, inconsistent with the provisions
of this act be and the same are hereby repealed.

In force.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 22, 1876.

CHAPTER 70.

AN ACT to provide for the payment of the counsel
employed to represent the State in the arbitration
between Maryland and Virginia, upon the bound-
ary between the said States, and to appropriate a
sum of money therefor and for the other expenses
of the said arbitration.

Appropriat'n
to pay counsel

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the sum of twelve thousand dollars
be and the same is hereby appropriated to pay Isaac
D. Jones and William Pinkney Whyte, Esqs., the
counsel heretofore employed by the Governor to
represent the State in the arbitration upon the
boundary line between the States of Maryland and
Virginia; and the comptroller is hereby authorized
and directed to issue his warrant upon the treasurer
for the payment of three thousand dollars to each of
said counsel upon the passage of this act; and to
issue a like warrant for the sum of three thousand
dollars, to each of said counsel, whenever the Gov-
ernor shall certify to him that the award of the ar-
bitrators has been made, which said sum shall be in