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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 113.

AN ACT to authorize and empower trustees herein named.

to convey a Lot of ground, situated in New Market District,

in Dorchesber County, to the Board of County School

Commissioners of said county. Whereas a certain Jeffrey

Stanley, late of Dorchester County, deceased, in his life-

time sold to Charles Hughes, Lewis Young and John

Wesley Sampson, as trustees, a certain lot of ground in

East New Market District, in said county, in trust for the

maintenance of a school thereon for the education of the

colored children of the said district, and whereas, the said

Stanly departed this life without having executed any

deed of conveyance for said lot to the said trustees, and

after his death James Alfred Hughes, his administrator,

duly conveyed the said lot to the said trustee by deed

bearing date, on the 5th day of November A. D., 1874,

and recorded in Liber F. I. H., No. 10, of the land records-

of said county aforesaid, folios 5 and 6, as by reference to

the same will fully, and at large appear, and whereas the

said lot has. since beeu abandoned, as a school house lot,

and the Board of School Commissioners of said county

have purchased another lot in the said district, much more

eligibly located, and have erecte'd a fine school house

thereon, and established a school therein, for the educa-

tion of the colored children of said district, and whereas

in consideration of this action on the part of said com-

missioners, the said trustees are willing and desire to con-

vey to said Board of County School Commissioners, the lot

sold and conveyed to the said trustees as aforesaid.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the trustees herein above named the sur-

vivor, or survivors, of them be, and they are hereby authorized

Authority

and empowered to convey by good and sufficient deed to be

to convey
to school

executed and acknowledged according to law, to the Board

commis-
sioners of

of County School Commissioners of Dorchester County in

Dorchester

fee simple, all that lot or parcel of ground which is described

County

in the deed aforesaid from the said James Alfred Hughes,

administrator of Jeffrey Stanley, deceased, to the said trus-

tees, together with the building and improvements thereon,

and all the rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging.

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

Effective

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 15th, 1892.