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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Laws, entitled, ''Cecil county;" relating to schools,
be and the same are" hereby repealed, and the fol-
lowing sections re-enacted in lieu thereof:

Powers, &c.,
transferred.

197. All powers, rights and privileges lawfully
exercised by any Board of Commissioners, any
Judges of Orphans' Courts, any Trustees' of pri-
mary schools, or any other person or persons, by
whatever name designated, by virtue of any act or
acts of the General Assembly of Maryland passed
in relation to public, primary or free schools, and
all moneys, property, estates and effects heretofore
vested by law in any of the said parties heretofore
mentioned respectively for the use and benefits of
said schools or any of them, and all rights to and
interests in all funds of whatever kind dedicated
to the support of said schools, or any of them, and
by law made payable to any of the parties herein-
before mentioned, are transferred and vested in the
Board of Commissioners of Public Schools of Cecil
county.

High schools
to be establish-
ed.

203. The Board of Commissioners of Public
Schools shall establish at least three high schools
or academies in Cecil county, to be located as fol-
lows: One at Elkton, one at Port Deposit and one
at Rising Sun, in said county, and whenever they
shall deem proper, at such other places in said
county as they may think expedient; each high
school or academy shall receive annually, out of
the school funds of said county, the sum of at least
four hundred dollars, and shall be entitled to all
the privileges, and shall be subject to the same
control as the public schools; the Board shall de-
termine the manner in which pupils shall be
admitted, and shall prescribe the course of instruc-
tion; should the Board of Commissioners be una-
ble to establish high schools or academies as herein
provided for, in consequence of having no suitable
buildings at the places herein designated, the said
Commissionors may appropriate the amounts, or
so much as may be necessary thereof, hereinbefore
set apart for said high schools, to the purpose of
procuring suitable buildings at said places.

Funds to be
paid to Treas-
urer.

207. The present school fund of Cecil county,
and all other funds which .may be by any law of
this State applicable to purposes of education in
said county, shall be paid directly to the Treasurer