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CALVERT COUNTY. [ART. 5.

the use of the schools the further sum of three hundred
dollars in payment of arrearages of interest due from
the county to the school fund, by reason of the non-
payment of such interest from eighteen hundred and
forty-five to eighteen hundred and fifty-four, until
such arrearages shall be liquidated ; which levies
shall not be charged upon tax bills as school tax,
but shall be included in the county tax.

Pay of com-
missioners.

68. The school commissioners shall receive the
same compensation as that now allowed by law to
the county commissioners, to be levied in the same
manner, but no school commissioner shall be allowed
for more than ten days service in one year.

Tuition fees
and how regu-
lated and col-
lected

69. The board of commissioners of public schools
shall arrange in tabular form a scale regulating the
tuition fees in said schools, based upon the assessable
property of the parties sending children, and gradu-
ating the amount to be paid by each to his ability to
pay ; and in no case shall the fee for tuition in the
elementary branches of English exceed twelve dol-
lars per annum for any one child ; and the register
shall furnish the trustees of each school with a copy
of the table regulating tuition fees, established by the
board of commissioners, and the bill for said tuition
fees, when regularly proven by the teacher, and
countersigned by the trustees, may be collected as
county taxes are now collected ; but if in the opinion
of the trustees of any school, they do not need so
high a rate of tuition as that established by the board
of school commissioners, they may diminish the said
rate in their school, but they shall not have power to
enforce the collection of any higher rate of tuition
fees than that established by the board of school
commissioners.

In force from Juno 1, 1862.