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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 324.

AN ACT to pay to the school commissioners of Garrett

County a sum of money out of the State school tax.

WHEREAS, in view of pressure of the present apportion-

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ment specially upon Garrett County of the State School

Fund and her inability without larger increase of county

taxation to keep open her schools for more than four or five

months and in view of the fact that mountain ridges so

divide the population of Garrett County, the largest county

of the State in area, as to render school facilities for all the

children more expensive than in the more level parts of

the State.

AND WHEREAS, it has been unanimously recommended

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by the State Board of Education and a committee appointed

by the State Teacher's Association that such sum of money

should be paid out of the State School Fund to the Board

of School Commissioners for Garrett County, therefore,

SECTION 7. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of

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Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he

is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant upon

the treasurer in favor of the Garrett County School Board,

for the sum of four thousand dollars per annum for two

years out of the proceeds of the State school tax.

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

from the date of its approval by the Governor.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 325.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section

one hundred and thirty-eight of chapter five hundred and

thirty-eight of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety,

title " Election."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

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Maryland, That section one hundred and thirty-eight of

ment.

the acts passed January session, eighteen hundred and

ninety, title "Elections," be and the same are hereby

repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows :

SEC. 138. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State

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at least thirty days before any election, at which any of the

ballots.

ballots provided for in the preceding section can be used,

to cause to be prepared and transmitted to said respective