ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

year, as required by the school law of the state,
is by said law required to forfeit the April in-
stallment of the state school tax for the year
eighteen hundred and eighty-eight ; the said ina-
bility of said county has arisen from the fact
that said county has been subjected to large ex-
penses in the erection of county buildings and
new school-houses, and the fact that the small
population is scattered over a large extent of
territory, creating a large number of schools
for the number of pupils required to be taught,
therefore,
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the comptroller of the

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state treasury be and he is hereby directed to
issue his warrant upon the treasurer of the
state in favor of the Board of School Commis-
sioners of Garrett county for the sum of one
thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars
and seventy-nine 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

Issue warrant.

be and he is hereby authorized and directed to
apportion to Garrett county its proper propor-
tion of the state school tax for the year eighteen
hundred and eighty-eight, known as the "April
installment of said school tax," to be made by
said comptroller in pursuance of law on the fif-
teenth day of March in said year, in the same
manner as if the county schools of said Garrett
county had been kept open seven and a-half
months during the year ending December thirty-
first, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said board

Directed to
apportion.

of school commissioners shall apply the said
sums so received by the provisions of this act
to the support of public schools of said county
in the same manner as the other portions of the
state school tax received by said county are in-
tended to be applied under the provisions of the
existing school law of this state.

How applied.

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

Approved February 15, 1888.

Effective.