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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 41.

AN ACT to add two (2) additional sections, to be numbered
120 and 121 of Article 25 of the Code of Public General
Laws of the State of Maryland, relating to County Commis-
sioners, authorizing County Commissioners to take and hold
in trust money or other property given, devised or be-
queathed to them for purposes of education.

New sections.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That two new sections be and the same are hereby
added to article 25 of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"County Commissioners," to follow immediately after section
119, and to be designated as sections 120 and 121, under a new
sub-title, "Schools," and to read as follows:

Property held
in trust for
purposes of
education.

120. The County Commissioners of each county in this
State, in. their capacity of corporations, shall be and hereby
are invested with full power to receive in trust and to hold
and control, for the purposes of such trusts, all money or other
property of whatsoever description which may hereafter be
bestowed upon such corporations by will, deed or in any other
form of gift or conveyance, in trust for purposes of education,
and to provide by resolution or otherwise for the execution of
said trusts in the mode prescribed by the will, deed or other
instrument creating the same.

Duty of
State's At-
torney.

121. That the State's Attorneys of the several counties be
and they hereby are charged with the duty of seeing that such
trusts are carried into effect in their respective counties; and
in case of any neglect on the part of the County Commis-
sioners, it shall be the duty of the State's Attorney in the
county in which such neglect occurs to cause proper proceed-
ings to be instituted in the Circuit Court for said county to
compel the execution of the said trust.

Approved February 28th, 1894.