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ing to the Darlington academy, and making in the aggregate four hundred dollars,
and which was also paid annually, shall be paid to said Darlington academy in
semi-annual payments of two hundred dollars each, out of the said academic fund,
and the treasurer is authorized and directed to pay upon the warrant of the comp-
troller, semi-annually to said academies respectively, the sums of money herein
directed to be paid to them, commencing on the first day of April, eighteen hundred
and seventy.

Approved and in force March 2, 1870.

1870, c. 223 recites, that by an act of the general assembly of Maryland, passed at
the January session, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, chapter one hundred and
twenty-five, Thomas J. Dall, James A. Waddell and John L. Willis, of Dorchester
county, were appointed commissioners to sell a small reservation of the Choptank
Indian lands, situated in Dorchester county, and were directed to retain the proceeds
of sale, to be disposed of by some future act of the general assembly for the purpose
of education in Dorchester county; and it having been represented to the general
assembly that the said real estate has been sold for the sum of six hundred and
ninety-five dollars, and the amount is now in the hands of the said commissioners,
awaiting the order of the general assembly, it, therefore, enacts that the said
Thomas J. Dall, James A. Waddell and John L. Willis, be directed to pay over the
said sum of six hundred and ninety-five dollars, received by them, from the sale of
the Choptank Indian lands, to the board of county school commissioners of Dor-
chester county, for the use of the public schools in said county.

Approved and in force April 7, 1870.

1870, c. 212 enacts:

1. That the treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, be directed to pay to
the board of school commissioners of Howard county the sum of sixteen hundred
dollars, that being the amount in arrear and due to said county from the state for
the past two years, to the first of April, eighteen Hundred and seventy.

2. That the said treasurer pay annually to the said board of school commissioners
for Howard county the sum of eight hundred dollars, the amount allowed to said
county from the academic fund, by virtue of the law of eighteen hundred and thirty-
one, resolution thirty-four.

3. That the said board of school commissioners shall apply the said sums of
money for the purposes expressed in section two of the act of eighteen hundred and
sixty-eight, chapter two hundred and eight.

Approved and in force April 4, 1870.

1870, c. 339 recites, that by resolution number thirty-one, passed February
seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and by the act passed March the
tenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, certain sums of money were authorized to
be paid annually to the visitors and governors of Washington college, as compen-
sation for the boarding of one student from each of the then existing eight counties
on the Eastern Shore, making in the aggregate, with the amount paid to said visi-
tors and governors, under laws existing prior to eighteen hundred and forty-eight,
the yearly sum of three thousand dollars, being three hundred and seventy-five
dollars for each of said students; and that, in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, the county of Wicomico was erected and organized out of portions of
Somerset and Worcester counties, in pursuance of the provisions of section second