ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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requisite for the proportion of said mining and me-

chanical knowledge, and such students shall be males

who have arrived at the age of fourteen years and

upwards.

SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That the school commission-

ers of said county appoint one professor skilled in the

Appoint pro-

knowledge of mining and mechanics, whose duty it

fessor.

shall be to give lectures in such school, throughout

the county, opened for this purpose.

SEC. 4. Be it enacted, That no school shall be

opened for evening class without written application

to the trustees of said school, and signed by the names

School — how

of thirty persons at the required age admissible thereto,

opened.

where said trustees shall notify the school commis-

sioners of the proceedings, and a school be opened

immediately.

SEC. 5. Be it enacted, That said professor, or per-

sons appointed by the school commissioners, shall

make all necessary arrangements, at the different

Make arrant-

schools, for lectures on mining and mechanics. Such

ments for lec-
tures, &c.

lectures shall be on the different nodes of ventilation

and their results, on science of mining and mechanics,

on civil engineering and map drawing.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That said professor and

teachers shall draw compensation for such duties pre-

formed out of the public school fund of Allegany

county, and from such appropriation so made or here-

Compensation.

after made by the State of Maryland, the school commis-

sioners having the power to fix and pay compensation

adequate for services rendered.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That such schools will

When opened

be opened on first Monday in November, and close on

und closed.

the last Friday of April.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That there shall not be

expended in any one year more than the sum of three

thousand dollars for the purposes of this act, and if

the county school commissioners shall not have a suffi-

Amount to In-

cient surplus, after paying all necessary expenses of

expended.

the ordinary public schools of the said county, to meet

the expenditures made necessary by this act, the county

commissioners shall levy the same as other county

taxes are levied.

SEC. 9. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from and after the date of its passage.

Approved March 4, 1884.