1836.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 280.

suitably situated, they shall state the fact, and for what
sum of money said house may be obtained, and the levy

Court authoris-
ed to build or
purchase

court may, if they shall think proper, purchase a site
and erect a house in each school district in said coun-
ty, or purchase any school house already erected as
aforesaid, and to that end may do, or authorise to be
done all acts necessary for that purpose.

Payment direct-
ed from school
fund

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That if the said levy court
shall purchase the said sites and erect said builings,
or purchase said school houses, so much of the free
school fund of said county, as is necessary to defray the
expense of said purchases and buildings, and all other
expenses authorised by this act, shall be applied and
appropriated to that purpose, under the direction of the
levy court

Compensation

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That each of the com-
missioners for every day's attendance in virtue of this
act, shall receive two dollars; provided, they shall not
be paid for more than five days each.

Act of 1835, ch.
163, repealed

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That an act entitled, an
act to authorise the appointment of commissioners
and the division of Worcester county into school dis-
tricts, and for other purposes therein named, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-five,
chapter one hundred and sixty-three, be, and the same
is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 280.

Passed Mar. 21
1837.

An act to authorize Noble Pennington, late sheriff of
Cecil County, to amend his return in a certain case
therein mentioned.

Amendment an
thorised

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful for Noble Pennington,
late sheriff of Cecil county, to amend the return by
him made, at April term 1835, of Cecil County Court,
in a certain case on the judicial docket of said court,
in which Robert Lemmon, Executor of James Hind-
man was plaintiff, and George Gale, and Levin Gale,
are defendants; and that such return, when amended,
shall have the same force, validity, and effect, as if the
same had been made, during the continuance in office