ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 340.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to pay the claim of Wil-

liam L.. Pfeiffer.

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

That the comptroller of the treasury be and he is hereby directed

To pay.

to issue his warrant upon the treasurer, to pay William L. Pfeiffer

the sum of five hundred and fifty-three dollars, ($553.00,) for car-

peting and repairing the rooms of the court of appeals, the said

work having been approved by said court and the comptroller of

the treasury.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTER 341.

AN ACT to amend and supplement an act entitled "An act to

incorporate the male free school of Baltimore," passed at the

December session, eighteen hundred and eight, chapter four, and

subsequently amended at the January session, eighteen hundred

and seventy, chapter two hundred and seventy-nine, and by

certain other acts.

WHEREAS, "The trustees of the male free school and Colvin in-

stitute of Baltimore," an institution designed to furnish education

to children, founded by the methodist episcopal church of Balti-

more, in eighteen hundred and two, and incorporated by an act of

the General Assembly, eighteen hundred and eight, chapter four,

as amended and altered by the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-

six, chapter nineteen, of eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, chapter

one hundred and ninety-two, of eighteen hundred and forty-six,

Preamble.

chapter one hundred and fourteen, and of eighteen hundred and

seventy-two, chapter two hundred and seventy-nine, by reason of

the changes that have taken place in the methods of public in-

struction and the extension of the public school system in Balti-

more, finds its usefulness impaired and its efficiency so restricted

that it is deemed desirable to change its mode of work, and to use

its resources in aiding worthy and deserving girls and young women

in obtaining an education at the college, known as "The trustees

of the women's college of Baltimore city," a corporation estab-

lished by the said methodist episcopal church in Baltimore, for the

education of young women; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mart/land,