E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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CHAPTER 149.
AN ACT amendatory to an act passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, chapter
two hundred and six, to establish Primary Schools in
Dorchester county, to lay off a school district in number
eight election district in said county, to be called
the Union School district.
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Passed April
29, 1853.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the said school district commence
at the Choptank river, at the division fence between
Michael Mitchell and Josiah Mitchell, and running to
the eastward of Michael Mitchell's house, until it
intersects Ross' Neck road, thence running with said
road until it reaches Hudson's creek, thence running
down said creek to John W. Marshall's land crossing
said Marshall's lands to John Spedden's farm, thence running
motherly with the water to the end of Cook's Point,
including Cook's Point, running up the Great Choptank
river, including Todd's Point, binding with the
said river to the place of beginning, including all the
lands within said limits, to be included in the Union
school district.
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District
where to commence.
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SEC. 2. And
be it enacted, That the county commissioners
of Dorchester county shall appoint five
commissioners for the Union school district, to have the
whole control of said school, and to employ and discharge
the teacher of said school at pleasure, and to
draw on the treasurer of the school fund of Dorchester
county, or the collector of the tax, as the case may be,
semi-annually, who shall pay to the order of the said
commissioners their equal proportion of the school fund,
that the district number eight may be entitled to agreeably
to the number of white children between the ages
of six and twenty-one years in said district, and in case
the said funds shall not be sufficient to carry on the
school, then the said commissioners shall have power,
if they deem it expedient to do so, to levy upon the
parents and guardians of each child that shall go to the
above named school, any sum not to exceed fifty cents
per month for each child, to be collected as other small
debts are collected, for the purpose of carrying on said
school; Provided, that nothing herein contained shall
be so construed as to authorise the said commissioners
to tax any parent or guardian who is not assessed or in
their opinion able to pay such tax.
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Five commissioners
to be
appointed.
Proviso.
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