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of article thirteen of the constitution of Maryland, adopted and ratified September
eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; and that, although no provision
has been made by law to extend to Wicomico county the benefits of said resolution
and of said act, yet the visitors and governors of Washington college, desiring to
include within the operation of said resolution and act the said county of Wicomico,
did, on the thirtieth day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, receive into
said college Warren J. Taylor, as a beneficiary student from Wicomico county, and
have ever since continued to board and instruct the said Warren J. Taylor, free of
all charge, and without compensation therefor from the State; and, therefore, it
enacts, that in addition to the sum now annually paid to the visitors and governors
of Washington college, there shall be paid to the said visitors and governors annu-
ally the further sum of three hundred and seventy-five dollars', as compensation for
the boarding and instructing of one student from Wicomico county, this being the
pro rata increase necessary to extend to Wicomico county the benefits now enjoyed
by the other counties on the Eastern Shore; and that the treasurer of Maryland be
authorized and required to pay to the said visitors and goveinors the Hum of seven
hundred and fifty dollars, the same being the amount due and in arrears to said
visitors and governors for the board and instruction of said student from Wicomico
county, for two years from April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, said
sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars, as well as the said annual donation of three
hundred and seventy-five dollars, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in
the treasury.

Approved and in force April 4, 1870.

1870, c. 419 repeals section 2 of 1868, c. 434, and re-enacts the same so as to read as

follows :

That the treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller, shall pay annually, on the
first Monday in April, to the trustees of Fairmount Academy, in Somerset county,
the sum of four hundred dollars, which said sum shall be inclusive of the appro-
priation of two hundred dollars heretofore donated to said academy in section two
of said act.

Approved and in force April 4,1870.

ARTICLE LXXVIII.

Refuge - House of.

HOUSE OF REFORMATION AND INSTRUCTION FOR COLORED CHILDREN.

1870, c. 392 incorporating the house of reformation and instruction for colored chil-
dren enacts as follows :

1. That John R. Cox, John C. Bridges, Edward Stabler, Jr, Henry W. Drakely,
William M. Boone, G S Griffith, George A. Pope, Benjamin Deford, James Baynes,
William E. Hooper, Isaac Coale, Jr., and Cyrus Blackburn, are hereby constituted
and declared a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The House of
Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children," and by that name and style