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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and such receiver may be prosecuted and punished, although

the principal offenders shall not have been convicted,

provided however, that in all cases where the stolen money,

good's or chattels or things received shall amount to less

than fifty dollars in value, the judge passing sentence shall

have discretionary power to sentence the said person so

found guilty, to imprisonment in jail, or in the House of

Correction, instead of the Penitentiary.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 547.

AN ACT for the aid of St. John's College.

WHEREAS, St. John's College has for many years per-

Preamble.

formed the duties of a Male State Normal School, by

gratuitously educating a number of young men for the

different counties of the State, who become teachers in the

public schools of the State ; and whereas, the visitors and

governors of St. John's College propose to extend the bene-

fits of its free education to at least two students from each

senatorial district.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland," That the Treasurer on the warrant of the Comp-

To pay

troller, be and he is hereby authorized and directed in

St John's
College

addition to the permanent annuity of three thousand dollars

payable on the first day of January in each year by the

State, to the visitors and governors of St. John's College, to

pay them the sum of six thousand dollars per annum, in

three equal installments, on the first day of April, the first

day of July, and the first day of October in each year, for

and during the term of two years; the first of said pay-

ments to be made on and after the first day of July eighteen

hundred and ninety -two.

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

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.