150 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

regulating the tuition fees in said schools, based
upon the assessable property of the parties sending
children, and graduating the amount to be paid
by each to his ability to pay ; and in no case shall
the fee for tuition in the elementary branches of
English exceed twelve dollars per annum for any
one child ; and the register shall furnish the trus-
tees of each school with a copy of the table regu-
lating tuition fees, established by the Board of
Commissioners, and the bill for said tuition fees,
when regularly proven by the teacher, and coun-
tersigned by the trustees, may be collected' as
county taxes are now collected ; but if in the opin-
ion of the trustees of any school, they do not neSd
so high a rate of tuition as that established by the
Board of School Commissioners, they may diminish
said rate in their school, but they shall not have
power to enforce the collection of any higher rate
of tuition fees than that established by the Board
of School Commissioners.

	CHAPTER 138.
Passed March 3, 1882.	AN ACT to authorize and empower the several Banks of this State to issue small notes, and to extend the provisions thereof to the Fell's Point Bank, and to give indemnity to the several Banks against the issues of small notes now put in circulation by them.
Banks autho- rized to issue email notes.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the several banks of this State now having authority to issue notes, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to issue twenty per cent, of their capital stock actually paid in, in notes of a less denomination than five dollars, but no note shall be issued of a less de- nomination than one dollar ; and nothing herein shall be construed to enlarge the total amount of the notes to be issued by any bank, beyond what is now allowed by law.