WM. PINKNEY WHYTE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 21

CHAPTER 21.

AN ACT to authorize the Board of County School
Commissioners of Cecil county to satisfy a judg-
ment against the Trustees of the Elkton Academy
in Cecil county.

WHEREAS, It has been represented to this General	Preamble
Assembly that there is a judgment debt of one thou-
sand dollars and some interest thereon, now held by
the Board of County School Commissioners of Cecil
county, which is a Hen upon the Academy building
and lot of land, and that since said judgment has
been held by the said Board of County School Com-
missioners the said Acadamy property has been used
and occupied for nearly six years for the public free
schools of said county, free of rent, and that the
furniture of said building, was also appropriated
and used by and for said free schools, during said
period, thereby requiring the expenditure of a large
sum of money, by said Trustees, in repairing the
building and fences and replacing the furniture,
and that the money thus necessarily expended, by
said Trustees, together with a fair rent for the prem-
ises, so as aforesaid used for the free schools, would
exceed in amount the said judgment debt and inter-
est; and whereas it seems right and proper that said
judgment should be released, in consideration of the
benefits and advantages derived, without charge by
said public schools from the use and occupation of
said academy property and furniture, therefore —
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of	Authorized to
Maryland, That the Board of County School Com-	release judgm't
missioners of Cecil county, be and they are hereby
authorized, if in their discretion they deem it proper
so to do, to release the said judgment now held by
them against the Trustees of the Elkton Academy.
Approved, February 13th, 1874.