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Dec. Ses. 1825.
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JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
shall be present; and in all other taxes, not less than
two of said inspectors shall be present. |
Respecting
city of Baltimore. |
21. And be it enacted, That the establishment
and regulation
of public or primary schools within the city of Baltimore, shall
be vested in the mayor and city and council of Baltimore; Provided,
That if the said mayor and city council shall not within the
space of five years after the passage of this act, establish a system
of public education within said city, then this act to be in
full effect within the city of Baltimore. |
Annual county
report to
county clerk.
To legislature. |
22. And be it enacted, That it shall
be the duty of the commissioners
of primary schools of the several counties in this
state, on or before the first day of July in each year, to make
and transmit a county report to the clerk of their county, embracing
the same matters as shall be contained in the report of
the trustees of school districts to the said commissioners, and
the clerks of the several counties, shall, on or before the first
day of December, annually made a county report, embracing
all the matters contained in the several county reports aforesaid,
and transmit the same to the superintendent of primary
schools, whose duty it shall be, annually, on or before the first
Tuesday in January, to make a report to the legislature, embracing
all the matters contemplated by this act. |
Commissioners
to hold
property as a
body politic.
Trustees also. |
23. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
of primary
schools in each county, shall be enabled to hold any property
which may be granted to them for the use and benefit of the
primary schools in their county; and such property, whether
real or personal, shall be to them and their successors in office,
in the same manner as if they were a body politic and corporate
in law; and such property shall be deemed to be vested
in the trustees of the several school districts, for the use and
benefit of their school, in the same manner as if such property
had been granted to them for that purpose; and the said trustees
of any school district, shall be enabled to hold any property
which may be vested in them for the use and benefit of their
school; and said property, whether real or personal, shall be
to them and their successors in office, in the same manner as if
they were a body politic and corporate in law. |
Revenues to
be distributed. |
24. And be it enacted, That as soon
as the revenues which
may be assigned and appropriated to the encouragement and
support of public instruction, shall be sufficient for commencing
the munificent purposes of this act, the same shall be apportioned
and distributed to each of the several counties of this
state and the city of Baltimore, for the use and benefit of primary
schools, as is herein before provided. |
Present
school funds
appropriated
as part. |
25. And be it enacted, That the funds
accruing under the act,
entitled, " An act to incorporate a company to make a turnpike
road leading to Cumberland, and for the extension of the charters
of the several banks in the city of Baltimore, and for other
purposes," and its several supplements, and the acts of assembly, |
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