JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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the year nineteen hundred and one; the said inability of said
county has been subject to large expenses in the erection of
school houses, and the fact that the small population is scat-
tered over a large extent of territory, creating a large number
of school houses for the number of pupils required to be
taught therein ; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby directed
to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer of the State in favor

CHAP. 62.

of the Board of County School Commissioners of Garrett
county for the sum of nineteen hundred and fifty-two dollars
and fifty-six cents; said sum, in addition to the amount to
which said county is entitled to receive, to be paid out of the
public school funds of the State under existing laws

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Comptroller be and he

Appropria-
tion.

is hereby authorized and directed to apportion Garrett county
its proper proportion of the said school tax for the year nine-
teen hundred and two, known as the March instalment of said
school tax, to be made by the Comptroller in pursuance of
law, on the fifteenth day of March in each year, in the same
manner as if the schools of Garrett county had been kept
open seven and one-half months in the year ending December
31, nineteen hundred and two.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Board of School
Commissioners shall apply the said sums so received by the

Apportion-
ment of
school tax.

provisions of this Act to the support of the public schools of
said county in the s.une manner as the other portions of the
State school tax, received by said county, are intended to be
applied under the provisions of the existing laws of this State.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act 'shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 20, 1902.

CHAPTER 63.
AN ACT to amend the Charter of the Mechanics' Loan and
Savings Institute, at Hagerstown, Maryland, so as to
authorize the said Institute to engage in and conduct a
general banking business.

WHEREAS, Mechanics' Loan and Savings Institute, at

How applied.

Hagerstown, Maryland, was duly incorporated by chapter 93,
Laws of Maryland, passed at the session of 1860, for the
purpose of conducting a loan and savings institute; and

Preamble