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for the benefit of the State of one-tenth part of the sum so
allowed, and where a legacy is left to an executor by way of
compensation, such legacy shall be reckoned in the commissions
fixed by the court.

8. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to impose the
tax upon commissions already fixed of any executor or adminis-
trator to whom letters shall have been issued before the passage
hereof.

In force from March 24, 1665.

ARTICLE LXXXIV.

Schools.

Chapter 178 enacts the following, (II. Supplement, 61: )

SEC. 1. After the Comptroller shall have sold the said scrip
and invested the proceeds thereof as provided by the act of the
General Assembly, passed at January session, eighteen hundred
and sixty-four, chapter ninety, (art. 84 in II. Supplement 61, ) the
annual interest or income of said investment shall be regularly
paid by him without diminution to the Maryland Agricultural
College, and the leading object of said college shall be, without
excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including
military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related
to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in order to promote the
liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the
several pursuits and professions of life, and the money so to be
received by the said college shall be applied to the objects enu-
merated in the said act of Congress, and to no other purposes
whatsoever, and the said college shall in all respects comply
with the several requirements of the said act, as to making and
recording experiments, and reporting the same as therein pre-
scribed; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued to prohibit or preclude the General Assembly, at any
time hereafter, from making any other disposition of said funds,
not inconsistent with the act of Congress making said donation.