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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

payments to be made on and after the first day of

October, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That section two of

Repealed and

chapter three hundred and ninety-three of the acts

re-enacted.

of the General Assembly, passed at the January ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled

"An act for the relief of St. John's College," be and

the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with

amendments so as to read as follows :

2. That the Treasurer, upon the warrant of the

Comptroller, be and he is hereby authorized and

directed to pay to the said Visitors and Governors,

annually, in instalments, beginning October the first,

eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as set forth in

How to be

a subsequent portion of this section, at the rate of

paid.

two hundred dollars for each of the students provided

with board, fuel, lights and washing free of charge,

under the provisions of the act and section hereby

repealed and re-enacted, until the number of such

students shall have been reduced by the expiration

of the period for which they were appointed, or oth-

erwise, to one for each county and senatorial district

of the State, and thereafter to pay to the said Visitors

and Governors the sum of five thousand two hun-

dred dollars per annum, payable in three instalments,

on the first day of October, the first day of Jan-

How applied.

uary, and the first day of April, to be applied by

them in furnishing board, fuel, lights and washing

to one of the students of the Collegiate Department,

educated free of charge for tuition, from each sena-

torial district of the State, and appointed by the

Boards of School Commissioners of the several coun-

ties and the city of Baltimore, by and with the

advice and consent of the Senator in their respective

counties and senatorial districts, after a competative

examination of the candidates for such appointments,

who shall produce before the said commissioners

satisfactory evidence of their moral character, and of

their inability or the inability of their parents or guar-
dians to pay the regular College charges ; provided,
that no one of the said appointments shall be held

by the same student for more than four years, unless

the time of holding such appointment be extended

by the Faculty of the College, and that each student

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