1576 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 686

appears in the disapproval of the said several items and in the
disapprovals of the portions of the respective amounts of the
said several items hereunto annexed.

The provisions of the items of the above Act, to wit: Chap-
ter 685 entitled "An Act making appropriations for the sup-
port of the State Government for the fiscal year ending on the
thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred and seventeen"
are hereby approved, with the exception of the following pro-
visions and items, and with the exception of the following
named portions of the respective amounts of the several items
contained in said Act, which are severally and respectively
disapproved, to wit:

On page 3, lines 18, 19, 20 and 21 of the enrolled Act, under
the caption "Judiciary, " the item, "for the commissions of
attorneys on claims of the State placed in their hands for col-
lection three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary" is hereby approved to the extent and amount of two
thousand dollars, and disapproved to the extent and amount of
one thousand dollars.

On page 13, lines 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119
and 120 of the enrolled Act, under the caption "Schools, " the
item: "To Springfield State Hospital, for the purchase in fee
simple of the farm of E. Frank Ely and Nannie F. Ely, his
wife, adjacent to the said Hospital in Carroll County, upon
the release and settlement in such form as may be satisfactory
to the Attorney General, of all suits and claims for damages
or otherwise, which the said E. Frank Ely and Nannie F. Ely,
his wife, have or might have against the said Hospital, or the
managers or superintendent, or any State Officials or the State,
the sum of sixteen thousand, five hundred dollars, " is hereby
approved to the extent and amount of fifteen thousand dollars,
and disapproved to the extent and amount of fifteen hundred
dollars.

CHAPTER 686.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the County Commissioners of
Kent County to provide for the building of public school
houses in Galena, Fairlee and Chestertown, Maryland, the
latter to be used for colored children, and to issue bonds to
pay for the same, and to levy an annual sum to pay such
bonds and the interest thereon as they mature, and to ap-
point committees for the building and equipping of said
public school houses.