290 CARROLL COUNTY. [Art. 7.

should the same become necessary, and also to constitute. a sinking fund for their
redemption, and also when; and if the said mayor and common council shall, en-
dorse any of the bonds of said railroad company as hereinbefore provided, the said
mayor and common council shall levy as aforesaid such amount of taxes as may be
sufficient to pay the interest on said endorsed bonds or any part thereof, the pay-
ment of the interest on which may not be safely and surely provided for by said
railroad company, and said bonds, so endorsed, shall not be subject to county or
municipal taxation.

3. The bonds, which may be issued as aforesaid, shall be payable not more
than thirty years from date, reserving the privilege of paying them at any time not
less than five years from date, and shall not be sold or disposed of at less that eighty
per cent.

4. At any municipal election to be held in Manchester, at such time and place
as may be fixed by an ordinance of the mayor and common council of Manchester,
there may be written or printed on the ballots of the legal and qualified voters at
said election the words: for railroad subscription, or against railroad subscription,
and if a majority of the ballots cast shall contain the words, for railroad subscrip-
tion, then this act shall become operative and binding, but if a majority of said
ballots shall contain the words, against railroad subscription, this act shall be void
and of no effect, and the judges of said municipal election shall return to the mayor
and common council of Manchester the number of votes cast for railroad Subscrip-
tion, and against railroad subscription, respectively, and the said mayor and com-
mon council shall, by their proclamation, announce the result thereof.

Approved and in force April 4, 1870.

SCHOOLS.

1870, c. 466 recites that there appears to be in the treasury, and due to Carroll county
for academic and high school purpose, for the years eighteen hundred and sixty-
eight and eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, the sum of twenty-four hundred dol-'
lars, and, therefore, enacts: '

1. That the comptroller of the treasury is authorized and directed to issue his war-
rant on the treasurer in favor of the board of trustees of the Western Maryland col-
lege for the sum of twenty-one hundred and eighty dollars, of the sum due for the
years eighteen hundred and sixty-eight and eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and
to the board of trustees of the said Manchester academy, the sum of two hundred
and twenty dollars of the sum due for the same years, and in each and every year
thereafter to pay to the said trustees of the Western Maryland college, the sum of
one thousand and ninety dollars, and to the said board of trustees of the said Man-
chester academy, the sum of one hundred and ten dollars, said payments to be made
on the first day of April in each and every year.

2. That the said Western Maryland college shall receive and give tuition, free of
charge, to at least one scholar from each election district in said county in each
scholastic year, the said scholars to be appointed by the board of school commis-
sioners of said county.

3. That the said Manchester academy shall receive and give tuition, free of
charge, to at least one scholar in each scholastic year, the said scholar to be ap-
pointed as provided for in the preceding section.

Approved and in force April 4, 1870.