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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

ated to pay the expense? that may be incurred, and the Treas-
urer of the State is directed to make a detailed report of the
work he has done under this Act and the amount expended
thereon to the Governor upon the completion of the work,
which report shall be submitted to the next General Assembly.

Effective.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.
Approved March 4, 1898.

CHAPTER 21.
AN ACT to appropriate the sum of fifteen hundred and
sixty-two dollars and one cent out of the public school funds
to reimburse Garrett County for an instalment of the State
school tax, withheld from said County in the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-seven, and also to authorize and direct
the Comptroller to apportion to said County the instalment
known as the March instalment of the State school tax for
the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, said instalment
being the apportionment made to said Garrett County on the
fifteenth day of March in each year.
WHEREAS, An instalment of State school tax, amounting to
the sum of fifteen hundred and sixty-two dollars and one cent,

Preamble.

was withheld from Garrett county in the year eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-seven, and said county not having been able to
keep open its schools for seven and one-half months in the
year, as required by the school laws of the State, is by said
law required to forfeit the March instalment of said school tax
for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, the said
inability of said county has arisen from the fact that said county
has been subject to large expenses 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 school houses for the number of pupils
required to be taught therein ; therefore,
SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Comptroller
to draw
warrant.

land, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby directed to
issue his warrant upon the Treasurer of the State in favor of
the Board of School Commissioners 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.