ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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sum of one thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and

seventy-nine cents, was withheld from Garrett county in the year

eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and said county not having

been able to keep its schools open seven and a half months in the

year as required by the school law of the State, is by the said law

required to forfeit the March instalment of the State school tax

Preamble.

for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the said inability

of said county has arisen from the fact that said county has been

subjected to large expenses in the erection of county buildings

and new school houses, and the fact that the small population is

scattered over a large extent of territory creating a large number

of schools for the number of pupils required to be taught; there-

fore,

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

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

directed to issue his warrant upon the treasurer of the State in

favor of the board of school commissioners of Garrett county,

To pay.

for the sum of one thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars

and seventy-nine cents, said sum in addition to the amount to

which said county is entitled to receive to be paid out of the pub-

lic school funds of the State under existing laws.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the comptroller be and he is

hereby authorized and directed to apportion to Garrett county its

proper proportion of the State school tax for the year eighteen
hundred and ninety, known as the "March instalment" of said

To appor-
tion.

school tax to be made by said comptroller in pursuance of law on

the fifteenth day of March in said year, in the same manner as if

the county schools of said Garrett county had been kept open

seven and a half months during the year ending December thirty-

first, eighteen hundred and ninety.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That said board of school commis-

sioners shall apply the said sums so received by the provisions of

this act, to the support of public schools of said county in the

To apply.

same manner as the other portions of the State school tax received

by said county are intended to be applied under the provisions of

the existing school law of this State.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.