ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. 547
CHAPTER 577.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the visitors of Anne Arun-
del County Free School, a body politic, to sell its land in said
county excepting two acres, and to apply the proceeds toward
building a new school house on said two acres.

Whereas, by .Chapter 19 of the Acts of Assembly of Maryland,
passed in October, seventeen hundred and twenty-three
(1723), the visitors to the Free School in Anne Arundel
County, and their successors in perpetual succession by said
Act of Assembly duly constituted as a body politic, were
authorized and directed to purchase one hundred or more
acres of land at some convenient place near the center of the
said county for the purpose of erecting and establishing there-
on a free school and were by said Act fully authorized and
empowered to take, hold and enjoy said land and to manage
and govern the same for the use of said school, as directed by
the provisions of said Act; and

Whereas, in pursuance of said Act of Assembly the visitors
therein appointed for Anne Arundel County, namely: The
Reverend Mr. Joseph Colebatch, Colonel Samuel Young, Wil-
liam Locke, Esquire, Captain Daniel Mariartee, Mr. Charlie
Hammond, Mr. Richard Warfield, and John Beale, Esquire,
on the nineteenth day of June, 1724, purchased from Richard
Snowden, of Anne Arundel County, a tract of land containing
one hundred and fifty acres, more or less, in that section of
the said county now known as the Second Election District
between Rutland and Chesterfield, and being part of the land
known at the time of said purchase as "God Will," and lying
at the head of South River; and

Whereas, the above named visitors erected a school house on
said land and ever since that time up to the present day, the
said Free School property has been managed and governed by
the duly qualified successors in office of said visitors, and
whereas, now Benjamin Watkins, Sr., Robert W. Kent, Eph-
raim Gaither and Julian M. Beard compose said Board of
Visitors; and

Whereas, since the institution and enlargement of the public
school system in Anne Arundel County the scope of the opera-
tions of the said Free School has been narrowed and the said
farm of one hundred and fifty acres has been found too large
for the practical uses of said school, and the building unsuited
for the needs of a modern school, and being also in a dilap-
idated condition, the said visitors have unanimously agreed
that the best interests of education and of the community
would be better subserved by selling the said property known