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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 11.	Frederick county, incorporated by the Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, 1816, chapter 95, and the faculty and teachers of said corporation, be and they are hereby authorized
Degrees to be granted and conferred.	and empowered to grant and confer upon the graduates of their institution, who, in the judgment of the said faculty, may merit the distinction, such collegiate and academic degrees as are usually granted and conferred by similar institutions of learning established for the education of females for profi- ciency in language, arts and sciences and to grant and confer such other degrees as are or may be conferred by any college or institution of learning in this State, or elsewhere, upon any woman who, in the judgment of the said faculty, of professors and teachers, may merit such distinction, whether such woman be a student or graduate of said institution or not.
Right of appeal.	SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the General Assembly shall have the right at any time to alter, amend or repeal this Act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved February 26, 1902. CHAPTER 12. AN ACT to provide for the refunding at a rate of interest not higher than four per centum per annum of certain bonds of Dorchester county, issued in pursuance of the authority contained in Chapter eighty-two of the Acts passed at the January Session, eighteen hundred and ninety- two as amended by Chapter three hundred and forty-three of the Acts passed at the January Session, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and to authorize the County Commissioners of Dorchester county, to borrow money on the credit of said county for the purpose of redeeming said bonds, and to give their bonds or bills obligatory for the payment of the same, and to levy taxes on the assessable property of said county to pay the interest on said bonds or bills obligatory and to redeem the same as they become payable.
Preamble.	WHEREAS, Bonds of Dorchester county issued under chapter eighty-two of the Acts passed at the January Session of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended by chapter three hundred and forty-three of the Acts passed at the January Session, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, are now outstanding and are redeemable at the pleasure of the County Commissioners of said county ; and