1835.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 296

sessments of the last proceeding county tax, excepting

nevertheless, the property assessed to and actually

owned by free negroes.

Power to Tote tax

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of

any and every school district, in said county, so as

aforesaid qualified, assembled at any legal district

meeting, shall and may have power to vote a tax on the

assessable property in said district, for payment of the

salary of a teacher in said district, or by contribu-

tion.

Power of trustees over lands

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That where any land, in

any school district in said county, may become charged

for the payment of any school tax, and the collector of

the tax can find no personal property in said district

liable for or chargeable with the payment of the same,

the said collector shall be and he is hereby directed and

required to return to the trustees of said district, at

such time or times as said trustees shall require or di-

rect, a list of such lands and the amount of taxes there-

on respectively due, and the names of the persons re-

spectively chargeable with the payment of the same,

and the said trustees shall thereupon have and exercise

in relation to said lands, all the powers which might or

could he exercised by the commissioners of the tax of

any county in this State, in like cases, in virtue of the

act for the more effectual collection of the county

charges in the several counties of this State, passed at

November session, seventeen hundred and ninety-seven,

Power of collectors

chapter ninety; and the collector of said school district

shall have the same powers and authority, and be sub-

ject to the same rules, regulations and duties in the

premises, as by law appertain to the office of the col-

lector of the county charges in like cases.

To be a public &

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid act

remedial act

for the public instruction of youth in primary schools

throughout this State, and this act, be and the same are

hereby declared to be public and remedial acts, and

How to be constru-

shall be construed by all courts of justice according to

ed

the equity thereof, and no proceedings of the inhabi-

tants or of the trustees of any school district, shall be

set aside or adjudged to be void for defect of form, or