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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Give notice

4. In every case, before proceeding to take testi-

mony therein, the said commissioner shall give at

least ten days' notice of the time and place appointed

for the taking thereof, to all persons interested there-

in, by advertisement in one or more newspapers

published in said county, and where the persons in-

terested are known to him, and reside in said county,

also by written or printed notices, to be served upon

Have the right
to app ar

them by the sheriff of said county ; and any person

interested shall have the right to appear in person or

by attorney before the said commissioner, on the

day appointed for taking testimony as aforesaid, to

examine or cross-examine witnesses as the case may-

be ; and the said commissioner shall have power to

adjourn or continue his proceedings from time to

time as the ends of justice may require, and he shall

issue process for all witnesses desired by any person

or persons interested in any case.

In force

SEC. 2. And'be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage and continue in

force until the first day of June, eighteen hundred

and seventy-five.

Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 469.

AN ACT to provide for the purchase of suitable

grounds and the erection of suitable buildings

thereon, for the State Normal School

WHEREAS, a State Normal School for the more

Preamble

proper and efficient instruction of persons in the art

of teaching, has been authorized and established by

the laws of this State, and whereas the buildings

now rented and occupied by said institution, are en-

tirely unsuited, and inadequate for the purposes

thereof, and whereas it is indispensable to the proper

efficiency of our public school system that such an

institution for the education of teachers should be

suitably provided for in our State, therefore —