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CHAPTER 282.
AN ACT for the relief of Washington College, and
to appropriate money for the same, and provide
for the education and board of one scholar from
each county of the Eastern Shore.
WHEREAS, the Visitors and Governors of Wash-
ington College have gratuitously educated and	Preamble.
boarded a large number of students from the differ-
ent counties of the eastern shore of this State on ac-
count of the annuity granted to them by the acts of the General Assembly, which they intend to continue
to do, and have also educated a large number of day
scholars free of charge for tuition, and it is manifest
that by some additional aid from the State the use-
fulness and prosperity of the College will be in-
creased; therefore —
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Treasurer, on the warrant of the	Authorized to my
Comptroller, be and he is hereby authorized and
directed, in addition to the sum now annually paid
to the Visitors and Governors of Washington Col-
lege, to pay to the said Visitors and Governors the
further sum of two thousand dollars annually on and
after the first day of June, in the year eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-four.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That in consideration of	Educate free
the sum of two thousand dollars to be paid annually	of charge.
to the Visitors and Governors of Washington Col-
lege, in addition to the sum now annually paid to
them, the said Visitors and Governors shall educate
free of charge for tuition, board, books and station-
ery, six additional students from the counties of the
Eastern Shore.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the students thus to	Students.
be educated free of charge, as provided by the second
section of this act, shall be selected and appointed
in the same manner, and subject to the same rules
and regulations and restrictions as are prescribed by
the resolution thirty-four of the General Assembly
in the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and
the act of eighteen hundred and fifty-six, chapter two
hundred and nineteen.