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cating the execution of such commission; and the
answer of every infant so taken in any case, when
returned to the court issuing the commission, shall
be as effectual as if taken under a commission duly
executed within the jurisdiction of such court.

CHAPTER 90.
AN ACT to add new sections to Article eighty- four of the Code of Public General Laws enti- tled " Schools," giving assent to the provisions of the act of Congress donating lands to the several States and Territories, for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts.	Passed Feb 17, 1864.
SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the following sections, relating to colleges, for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, be added to the Article "Schools," of the Code of Public General Laws entitled, "An act assenting to the provisions of the act of Con- gress donating lands to the several States and Ter- ritories for the benefit of education."	Sections added
17. The State of Maryland hereby declares its acceptance of the provisions of an act passed by the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts," approved July the second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two ; and the Governor is hereby authorized to give such notice of the said acceptance as may be proper.	Acceptance.
18. The Comptroller of the Treasury is hereby authorized to receive from the proper authorities of the United States, the land scrip to be issued for the lands granted to this State by the said act of Congress, and to give all necessary receipts and acknowledgments for the scrip which may be re- ceived by him.	Comptroller authorized.