EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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provided, that three reputable male citizens over the age of
twenty-one years, residents of the school district in which
the said child resides, shall certify under oath that to the
best of their knowledge and belief the parent, guardian or
other person having control of such child is not financially
able to pay the expense of the child to and from school.
140. Any person who has such a child under his or her
control, and who fails to comply with any of the provisions

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of the preceding section, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, before a justice
of the peace, be fined a sum not exceeding five dollars for
each offence.
141. Any person who induces or attempts to induce any
deaf or blind child to absent himself or herself unlawfully

Guilty of mis
demeanor.

from school, or employs or harbors any such child absent
unlawfully from school, while said school is in session, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon convic-
tion thereof before a justice of the peace, be fined a sum not
exceeding fifty dollars for each offence.
142. The principal teacher of every public school in the
counties and the truant officers of the city of Baltimore shall,

Guilty of mis-
demeanor.

within thirty days from the beginning of the school year
succeeding the passage of this Act, furnish the Board of
County School Commissioners or the Board of Education of
Baltimore city, as the case may be, with the names of all
children who are deaf, blind or feeble minded, between the
ages of six and sixteen years, inclusive, living within the
boundaries of his or her school district who do not attend
school. And the Board of County School Commissions or
Board of Education of Baltimore city shall certify forthwith
the names of all such deaf, blind or feeble minded children
to the respective principals of the State schools for such
children.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved March 31, 1906.

CHAPTER 237.
AN ACT to incorporate the Church Hill Bank of Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Edwin S. Valliant, Enoch G. Coppage, James E.
Meredith, Edwin B. Walls, W. E. B. Faithful, J. Frank

Names of
children
between six
and sixteen
years who do
not attend
school to be
furnished
proper
authorities.