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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted) That this act
shall take effect from and after the first day of May
next.

CHAPTER 137.

Passed Feb.
25, 1862.

AN ACT to amend sections" fifty-eight, sixty -one,
sixty-two, sixty-eight and sixty-nine of Article
five of the Code of Public Local Laws for Calvert
county, relating to the Public Schools of said
county.

Repealed.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That section fifty-eight of Article
five of the Code of Public Local Laws for Calvert
county, be repealed and the following enacted in
lieu thereof :

Commission-
ers of Public
Schools.

Fifty-eight. On the second Tuesday of April in
the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be
appointed by the Orphans' Court of Calvert coun-
ty, one person in each election district in said coun-
ty, to be denominated "The Board of Commission-
ers of Public Schools for Calvert county," who
shall be a body corporate and politic, with powers
to sue and be sued, and who shall hold their office
for four years from the said second Tuesday of
April, eighteen hundred and sixty, and until
their successors are appointed.

Repealed.

Sec. 2. That section sixty-one of said Article
be repealed, and the following enacted in lieu
thereof :

Apportion-
ment of school
fund.

Sixty-one. The said Board of Commissioners
shall be Commissioners of the school fund of
said county, and apportion among the several
public schools of the county, the amount of
school fund the county shall be entitled an-
nually to receive from the State, and the amount
annually levied by the County Commission-
ers in proportion to the number of indigent
children attending each, but no school shall re-
ceive less than two hundred nor more than three