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with the exception of Howard county, for the purpose of supporting a high school,
and in consequence of withholding the sum from Howard county, the board of
school commissioners have been unable to organize a high school in said county,
therefore this act enacts that the treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller,
be directed to pay to the board of school commissioners for Howard county the sum
of six thousand four hundred dollars, that being the amount in arrear and due to
the said county by the state.

That the said board of school commissioners for Howard county shall employ the
said sum of money for the purpose of organizing and supporting a high school in
said county, and for no other purpose whatever.

That the sum of six thousand four hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby
appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not other-
wise appropriated.

In force and approved March 28,1868

1868, c. 434 recites that whereas, resolution No. 34, passed at December session,
1831, declares that the donation granted to schools and academies in the several
counties of this state shall be equalized, so as to give eight hundred dollars to each
county; therefore, it enacts that the treasurer of this state, upon the warrant of the
comptroller shall pay annually, on the first Monday in April, to the board of school
commissioners of Wicomico county, the sum of eight hundred dollars, one-half of
said sum to be paid to the board of trustees of Salisbury academy, and the other
half to be applied to the public school fund of said county.

That the donation of two hundred dollars, now paid to the trustees of Salisbury
academy, for Somerset county, shall hereafter be paid to the trustees of Fairmount
academy, in said Somerset county.

That the treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, shall pay annually, on
the first Monday in April, to the board of school commissioners of Wicomico county,
the sum of four hundred dollars, in addition to the sum named in the first section
of this act, to be applied to the public school fund of said county.

In force and approved March 30,1868.

1868, c. 400 entitled an act to increase the number of free scholarships in the
Baltimore Female College, and to change the manner of appointing the beneficiaries
and board of trustees recites that whereas, since the endowment of the Baltimore
Female College, two new senatorial districts have been established in Baltimore
city, and the county of Wicomico has been erected; therefore it enacts, that three
additional free scholarships be established in the Baltimore Female College', upon
which two pupils from the city of Baltimore, and one from the county of Wicomico,
shall be admitted to all the instructions given in the college, and to the privileges of
the normal class, with the use of all necessary books, without any charge whatever.

That to meet the expenses of the above, the further sum of three hundred dollars,
in addition to the present donation of twenty-two hundred dollars, shall, on the
warrant of the comptroller of the state, be annually paid on the first day of April
in each and every year to the president of the board of trustees of the college.

That in filling vacancies in all the free scholarships established in the college by
the state, the orphans' courts of the several counties and of the city of Baltimore,
shall always give preference to such applicants as may be presented to them by the
several boards of school commissioners respectively of the several counties.