THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

bers thereof, in their respective equal and just proportions.

CHAP. 302.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That this act shall con-

Continue in force

till 1877

tinue and be in force until the first day of January

eighteen hundred and seventy seven, except the busi-

ness of said company shall have been brought to a close

as is herein before provided for; Provided always, that

Proviso

the legislature hereby reserves the right to repeal or

modify said act at any subsequent session thereof.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act

No banking priv-

contained shall be so construed as to confer any bank-

ilege

ing privileges on the company aforesaid, nor the right

to issue any note in the nature of a bank note.

CHAPTER 302.

An act to lay off a Primary School district in that part

Passed April 4,1836

of the village, called Ellicott's Mills, being in Anne

Arundel county.

WHEREAS, sundry citizens in and near the village

Preamble

of Ellicott's Mills, have petitioned this general assem-

bly for relief from certain inconveniences resulting to

them from the manner in which the primary school dis-

tricts, in Anne Arundel county, have been laid off and

established in said county, and have prayed the grant

of an authority to lay off a school district not exceed-

ing two miles square, in the manner hereinafter provi-

ded, and that they authorise for the purpose of said

school, to levy on persons within said district, an in-

come tax not exceeding one dollar, and a proportionate

tax on owners of property therein, not exceeding one

dollar in five hundred dollars, and it appearing to this

general assembly that the prayer of the petitioners is

reasonable and should be granted, except as concerns

the imposition of the income tax which the constitution

prohibits, and which therefore this general assembly-

have no power to authorise: — Therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Commissioners to

Maryland, That the commissioners of primary schools

lay off

for Anne Arundel county, be and they are hereby au-

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