ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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distributive portion of the public school tax, there-

fore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the comptroller is hereby author-

ized and empowered to apportion to Frederick county

its usual and proper portion of the school tax levy in

the apportionment to be made by said comptroller in

pursuance of law, on the fifteenth day of March, eigh-
teen hundred and eighty-four, in the same manner as if

Comptroller to
apportion.

the county schools of said Frederick county had been

kept open seven and one half months during the

year ending December thirty-first, eighteen hundred

and eighty-three, any provision in the said act of

eighteen hundred and seventy-two to the contrary

notwithstanding.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the of its passage.

Approved March 20,1884.

Chapter 103.

AN ACT to add a sub-section to section fifty-four of

article twenty-one of the Code of Public Local

Laws, title " Washington county," sub-title " Circuit

court," as amended by chapter eighty-three of the

acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-four, to pro-

vide for an additional common law term of the cir-

cuit court for Washington county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the following sub-section shall be

added to section fifty-four of article twenty-one of

the Code of Public Local Laws, title " Washington

county," sub-title " Circuit court," as amended by chap-

Sub-section
added.

ter eighty-three of the acts of eighteen hundred and

seventy-four, so as to provide for an additional common

law term of the circuit court for Washington county,

eaid sub-section to be designated section fifty-four A.

SEC. 54 A. In addition to the common law terms

prescribed in the preceding section, there shall be a

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