ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 267
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Chapter 207.
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AN ACT to appropriate the sum of two thousand two
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hundred and seven dollars and nineteen cents out
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of the public school funds to reimburse Garrett
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county for installments of said funds withheld from
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said county in the years eighteen hundred and
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eighty-one and eighteen hundred and eighty-three.
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WHEREAS the sum of two thousand two hundred
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and seven dollars and nineteen cents, viz., thirteen
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hundred and seven dollars and sixty-seven cents, in
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the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one, eight
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hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty-two cents,
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in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, of
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the amount apportioned out of the public school
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funds of Garrett county, was withheld from and not
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paid to the board of school commissioners of said
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Preamble.
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county on account of the inability of said county to
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comply with the law requiring the public schools in
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the counties to be kept open seven and one-half
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months in each year, said inability arising from the
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fact of the said county having been but recently
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created and subjected to large expenses in the or-
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ganization of her county government and the erec-
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tion of county buildings and building new school
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houses —
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SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
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Maryland, That the treasurer, on the warrant of the
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comptroller, be and he is hereby authorized and di-
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rected to pay to the board of school commissioners of
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Garrett county the said sum of two thousand two hun-
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Treasurer au-
thorized to pay
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dred and seven dollars and nineteen cents, said sum,
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in addition to the amount to which said county
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is entitled to receive, to be paid out of the public
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school funds of the state under existing laws. This
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claim has been reported on by the comptroller.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said board of
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school commissioners shall apply so much of said sum
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as may be necessary to the immediate payment of
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How applied.
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arrears of salary due to the teachers in said county,
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and the residue to the liquidation of any debts due by
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said board on account of the public schools of said
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county.
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