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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of Baltimore City : the said bequest of $2,500 by the terms

of the will to be paid free from the collateral inheritance tax;

same to be paid by the estate of Miss Swan as in the will pro-

vided.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 25, 1904.

CHAPTER 158.

AN ACT to authorize the Board of County School Commis-

sioners of Dorchester County to pay, in their discretion, to

Thomas I. Wright, of said county, the sum of two hundred

dollars, with interest from the 22cl day of October, 1892,

for money paid by him to the said Board for certain real

estate.

WHEREAS, On the 18th day of September, 1880, Thomas I.

Conveyance

Wright conveyed to the Board of County School Commis-

of property
for scnool

sioners of Dorchester County certain real estate located in Hur-

purposes.

lock Election District of said county, in fee, for a nominal con-

sideration, to be used for school purposes ; and

WHEREAS, It was the understanding of the parties at the

Provision
omitted.

time of said conveyance that whenever said land should cease

to be used for school purposes it should be conveyed back to

the said grantor for a nominal consideration, but this pro-

vision was erroneously omitted from the said deed ; and

WHEREAS, In the year 1892 the said land, ceasing to be used

Failed to re-

for school purposes, was not reconveyed to the said Thomas I.

convey.

Wright, but was sold at public sale to the highest bidder for

the sum of two hundred dollars, the said Thomas I. Wright

bidding in the same ; now, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

School Com-

land, That the Board of County School Commissioners of Dor-

missioners tc
refund pur-

chester County be and they are hereby authorized, empowered

chase money

and directed, in their discretion, to pay back to the said Thomas

I. Wright, of Dorchester County, the sum of two hundred

dollars, with interest from the 22d day of October, 1892, for

the purchase money of land purchased by him from the said

Board of County School Commissioners of Dorchester County.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 25, 1904.