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hundred and fifty-two to the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, inclusive, and
to pay to Baltimore city and Baltimore county the amounts of which they have been
deprived by said errors, and to make appropriation for that purpose; whereas, the
act of eighteen hundred and thirteen, chapter one hundred and twenty-two, and the
act of eighteen hundred and sixteen, chapter one hundred and fifty-six, provide that
the " free school fund" shall be divided equally among the several counties of this
state; and whereas Baltimore city and Baltimore county became separate and
distinct jurisdictions by virtue of the constitution which went into operation on the
fourth day of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and were each from that date
legally entitled to a full and equal share of said " free school fund," under the same
construction of the law by which both Carroll and Howard counties, after they
became separate jurisdictions, were each apportioned and paid with the other
counties an equal share of said "free school fund;" and whereas by inadvertance Or
oversight, Baltimore city and Baltimore county were each paid only one-half of the
amount of said " free school fund," which was paid to other counties for the period of
sixteen years, viz: from the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two to the year eighteen
hundred aud sixty-seven, inclusive; therefore this act enacts, that the comptroller
be and he is hereby authorized and required to correct the errors in the distribution
of the "free school fund," accruing under the acts of eighteen hundred and thirteen
and eighteen hundred and sixteen, for the period of sixteen years, from the year
eighteen hundred and fifty-two to the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven,
inclusive, by paying to Baltimore city and to Baltimore county, each, the sum of
eight thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and thirty-eight and a half
cents, being the amounts of which they have been deprived by the errors in the
distribution of said "free school fund," as will fully appear on the books and
accounts of the comptroller.

That the sum of sixteen thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars and
seventy-seven cents be and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose afore-
said, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

That the treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, shall pay to the treasu-
rers of the boards of school of Baltimore city and Baltimore county each the sum of
eight thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and thirty-eight and a half
cents, to be applied as other school funds are now applied.

That the comptroller be and he is hereby instructed and required in the future
distribution of the "free school fund," herein aforementioned, to apportion to
Baltimore city a like and equal share with each county of the state.

In force and approved March 23, 1868.
See 1868, c. 239 under Public General Laws, Art LXXXI, Revenue and Taxes.

1868, c. 320 repeals 1856, c. 91, ss. 4 and 13, entitled an act to endow an agricul-
tural college in the state of Maryland, and enacts that the president of the senate
shall be, ex-officio, a member of the board of trustees of the Maryland agricultural
college, in the place which the lieutenant governor formerly held in the said board.

That a general meeting of the stockholders of the Maryland agricultural college
shall be held annually, on the second Wednesday of April, in the city of Baltimore,
at such special hour and place as the president of the existing board of trustees may
appoint, and one week's notice of such meeting shall be published in two of the daily
newspapers of Baltimore, and that a meeting may be called at any time and at any
convenient place during the interval between the said annual meetings, by the
president and trustees, or a majority of them, or by the stockholders owning at least