FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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necessary, and appoint a fit person to be overseer of the

Overseer.

almshouse, and such other proper officers and servants as

may seem necessary to them.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 22nd, 1892.

CHAPTER 167.

AN ACT to appropriate the sum of one thousand, five hun-

dred and forty-one dollars and seventy-nine cents, out of

the public school funds, to reimburse Garrett County for

an instalment of the State school tax withheld from said

county in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and

also to authorize and direct the comptroller to apportion

to said county the instalment known as the March instal-

ment of the State school tax for the year eighteen hundred

and ninety -two, said instalment being the apportionment

made to said Garrett County on the fifteenth day of March

in each year.

WHEREAS, an instalment of State school tax amounting

Preamble.

to the sum of one thousand, five hundred and forty -one dol-

lars and seventy -nine cents was withheld from Garrett

County in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and

said county not having been able to keep open its schools

seven and a half months in the year as required by the

school law of the State, is by said law required to forfeit

the March instalment of the said school tax for the year

eighteen hundred and ninety -one, the said inability of said

county has arisen from the fact that said county has been

subject to large expenses in the erection of county buildings

and new school houses, and the fact that the small popula-

tion is scattered over a large extent of territory, creating a

large number of school houses for the number of pupils

required to be taught therein. Therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the comptroller of the State treasury be and

To pay

the same is hereby directed to issue his warrant upon the

school com-

treasury of the State in favor of the board of school com-

missioners
of Garrett

missioners of Garrett County for the sum of one thousand

County.

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 public school funds

of the State under existing laws.