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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 279.

AN ACT to repeal an act passed by the January session of eigh-

teen hundred and seventy, chapter four hundred and sixty- six,

entitled an act to distribute the academic and high school fund

of Carroll county to the "Western Maryland college and Man-

chester academy, in Carroll county, and to re-enact the same

with amendments.

WHEREAS, The General Assembly of Maryland, by chapter four

hundred and sixty-six, of the laws passed at the January session

of eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled an act to distribute the

academic and high school fund of Carroll county to the Western

Maryland college and Manchester academy, in Carroll county, pro-

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vided that there should be paid to the board of trustees of Man-

chester academy, in each and every year thereafter, the sum of

one hundred and ten dollars to the academic and high school

fund of Carroll county, on condition that the same Manchester

academy should receive and give tuition, free of charge, to at least

one scholar in each scholastic year, to be appointed by the board

of school commissioners of said county; and,

WHEREAS, The said Manchester academy has failed to comply

with said condition since the year eighteen hundred and seventy,

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and has not been in successful operation since that time, and is

not now in operation, whereby default has been made in the pay-

ments provided for in said act of the General Assembly; and,

WHEREAS, There is in consequence of said default in the State

Preamble.

treasury, the annual allowance to said academy for twenty years,

amounting to the sum of twenty-two hundred dollars; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Maryland,

The act passed at the January session, in eighteen hundred and

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seventy, entitled an act to distribute the academic and high school

fund of Carroll county to the Western Maryland college and Man-

chester academy, in Carroll county, be and the same is hereby re-

pealed and re-enacted, so as to read as follows :

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the comptroller of the treasury

be and he is hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant

on the treasurer, in favor of the board of county school commis-

sioners of Carroll county, for the sum of twenty-two hundred

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dollars, the accumulation of the annual allowance of said Man-

chester academy, and in each and every year hereafter, to pay to the

said board of county school commissioners the sum of two hun-

dred dollars, and to the board of trustees of the Western Mary-

land college the sum of one thousand dollars, said payments to be

made on the first day of April, in each and every year.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said board of county school