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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and seventeen,
chapters sixteen and ninety-three, according to the provisions
of the said acts, shall be considered as included in, and
composing a part of the revenues to be assigned and appropriated
for the encouragement and support of public instruction;
Provided, That no other rule of apportionment of the
funds which have heretofore been raised, or which may hereafter
be raised under the provisions of said acts, than as in such
acts is provided, shall be applied to said funds. |
139
Dec. Ses. 1825.
Proviso. |
26. And be it enacted, That all the
funds hereafter to be assigned
and appropriated for the support and maintenance of
public instruction, as relating to primary schools, shall be apportioned
and distributed amongst the several counties of this
state, and to the city of Baltimore, when the said city shall
have established public schools either by authority delegated to
the said city, or under this act, according to the ratio of white
population, as ascertained by the last preceding census of the
United States; and it shall be the duty of the superintendant of
public instruction, to give notice thereof in writing to each of
the clerks of the county courts of such counties, setting forth
the amount of money appropriated to his county, and the time
when the same shall be payable to the commissioners of said
county. |
Ration of distribution
of
funds.
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27. And be it enacted, That if any
collector appointed under
the provisions of this act, shall in any case collect more than is
due, the person aggrieved shall have his remedy against such
collector by suit or warrant, and if he recover, he shall have
judgment for double the amount improperly and injustly extorted
from him, and costs. |
Remedy
against collectors. |
28. And be it enacted, That the governor
and council cause
this act to be published for the information of the people, in
such of the newspapers in this state, and the district of Columbia,
as they think proper. |
Publication
of this act. |
29. And be it enacted, That at the
next election of delegates to
the general assembly, every voter when he offers to vote, shall
be required by the judges of election, to state whether he is for
or against the establishment of primary schools, and the said
judges shall record the number of votes for and against primary
schools, and make return thereof to the legislature during
the first week of the session, and if a majority of the said votes
in any county, shall be in favour of the establishment of primary
schools as is therein provided for, then and in that case,
the said act shall be valid for such county or counties, otherwise
of no effect whatever. |
This act to
be submitted
to the vote of
the people. |
30. And be it enacted, That if a majority
of the votes of
any county in this state, shall be against the establishment of
primary schools as established by this act, then and in that
case, the said act shall be void as to that county. |
To be void
to counties
rejecting. |
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