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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 368.

AN ACT to provide for the building of a school house

for colored children in the fourth district, and one

in the first district, of Anne Arundel county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the County School Commis-

sioners of Anne Arundel county be and they are

School house
for colored

hereby authorized, required and directed to appro-
priate the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars

children con-
ditionally.

out of the fund for the support of colored schools

for Anne Arundel county, to erect a school house for

colored children on the lands now owned by Doctor

A. S. Linthicum, in the fourth district of said county;

provided the said Linthicum conveys one acre of

land to the said School Commissioners as a school-

house lot upon which to erect the same.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County School

Commissioners of said Anne Arundel county be and

they are hereby authorized, required and directed to

School house
conditionally

appropriate a further sum of three hundred and fifty
dollars out of the fund for the support of colored

schools for said county, to erect a school house for

colored children on the lands of Frederick B. Steiner,

in the first district of said county ; provided the said

Frederick B. Steiner convey one acre of land to the

said School Commissioners as a school house lot upon

which to erect the same.

SEC. 3. And le it enacted, That the two school

Time for erec-

houses provided for by the preceding sections of this

tion.

act shall be erected within the year eighteen hun-

dred and seventy-eight, and be paid for upon the

completion of the same.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the trustees of the

school districts wherein said school houses are to be

erected, are hereby constituted and appointed as the

building committee, to contract for and superintend

the construction of said school houses, and the said

Draw money

committee are hereby empowered to draw on the

when com-

County School Commissioners for each of the said

pleted.

sums of three hundred and fifty dollars, whenever