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ment of the county commissioners, and they are to determine the matter in exer-
cise of their discretion. It is not a matter with which the courts have anything to
do or can in any manner control, unless action of county commissioners was
arbitrary or induced by corruption or fraud. Words " public landing," defined.
Chaney v. Anne Arundel County, 119 Md. 389.
An. Code, sec. 106. 1904, sec. 123. 1888, sec. 119. 1823, ch. 120, sec. 2.
162. Upon all applications to establish a public landing the same pro-
ceedings shall be had as on applications to open a public road.
See notes to sec. 161.
Schools.
An. Code, sec. 107. 1904, sec. 124. 1894, ch. 41, sec. 120.
163. The county commissioners of each county in this State, in their
capacity of corporations, are invested with full power to receive in trust
and to hold and control, for the purposes of such trusts, all money or other
property of whatsoever description which may hereafter be bestowed upon
such corporations by will, deed, or in any other form of gift or conveyance,
in trust, for purposes of education, and to provide by resolution or other-
wise for the execution of said trusts in the mode prescribed by the will, deed
or other instrument creating the same.
See art. 77, sec. 237.
An. Code, sec. 108." 1904, sec. 125. 1894, ch. 41, sec. 121.
164. The state's attorneys of the several counties are charged with the
duty of seeing that such trusts are carried into effect in their respective
counties; and in case of any neglect on the part of the county commis-
sioners, it shall be the duty of the state's attorney in the county in which
such neglect occurs to cause proper proceedings to be instituted in the
circuit court for said county to compel the execution of the said trust.
Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration Work.
An. Code, sec. 109. 1914, ch. 427. 1922, ch. 135.
165. The Board of County Commissioners of the respective Counties
of this State may, and they are hereby authorized and empowered in their
discretion to appropriate and use, under such rules as they may prescribe,
any sum or sums of money, as in their discretion, may appear to be neces-
sary and proper for the support of Farmers' Co-operative Demonstration
Work, including Home Demonstration Work and Boys' and Girls' Club
Work, in each of their respective Counties, along the same line as such
work is or may be conducted by the United States Department of Agri-
culture or the University of Maryland Extension Service, and may con-
duct such work jointly in the respective Counties with the agents and
representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture and the
University of Maryland Extension Service, upon such terms and condi-
tions as may be agreed upon between the agent of the Department of Agri-
culture of the United States and the agent of the University of Maryland
Extension Service and the Board of County Commissioners.
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