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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

urer of the State in favor of the Board of School Commis-
sioners of Garrett county for the sum of fifteen hundred and
sixty-two dollars and one cent, 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.

Comptroller
to pay
"March in-
stalment"
of school
tax.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Comptroller be and he
is hereby authorized and directed to apportion to Garrett
county its proper proportion of the said school tax for the
year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, known as the " March
instalment" of said school tax, to be made by said Comptroller,
an pursuance of law, on the fifteenth day of March in each
year, in the same manner as if the county schools of said
Garrett county had been kept open seven and one-half mouths
in the year ending December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four.

How to be
applied.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That said Board of School Com-
missioners shall apply the said sums so received by the pro-
visions of this act to the support of the public schools of said
county, in the same 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 law of this State.

Effective

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

Approved January 31st, 1894.

CHAPTER 8.

AN ACT to appropriate the sum of five thousand dollars to
the Maryland Society of the Sous of the American Revolu-
tion, to aid in the erection of a monument to the memory
of the Maryland Patriots of the Revolutionary War.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, Other States of the thirteen original colonies
have, through subscriptions made by the National Govern-
ment, States, cities, towns and individuals, erected memorials
to the memory of the patriots of the American Revolution :
and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The State of Maryland, the leading colony in
opposition to the mother country, and whose troops, over