DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1828

Farquhar; for David Brish, twenty-five dollars. In Charles
county, for Mary Copee, fifteen dollars; for Ann Theresa
Ware, thirty dollars.

CHAP. 168.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of
Harford county, and levy court of Talbot county, be and
they are hereby authorised and required, to levy or. the as-
sessable property of said counties, for the following per-
sons, viz. In Harford county, for Elijah Norris, not less than
thirty dollars. In Talbot county, for John Helsby, not less
than thirty dollars; for Solomon Hipgins, not less than thir-
ty dollars; which sums, when collected, shall be paid to
them, or their order.

Additional levies

An Act to provide for the Public Instruction of Youth
in Primary Schools in A/me Arundel County.

Passed Mar 12,1829

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That all the powers which are vested in the taxa-
ble inhabitants of the school districts in Anne-Arundel
county, by the act to provide for the public instruction of
youth in primary schools throughout this state, shall be and
the same are hereby vested in the free white male citizens
of this state, above the age of twenty-one years, and ac-
tual residents of, and taxable in, said districts, respective-
ly; and the resident inhabitants of any and every school
district in said county, so as aforesaid qualified, shall have
and exercise all the powers which are by the aforesaid act
vested in the taxable inhabitants of said district, and in
manner and form as the same might or could be exercised

Powers vested in

the free white

male citizens, &c

by the aforesaid taxable inhabitants; Provided nevertheless,
that no primary school meeting, to be held in the city of
Annapolis, shall be considered as a legal meeting, unless a
majority of the inhabitants, qualified as aforesaid, be pre-
sent thereat, and vote.

Proviso

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That all tax to be voted by
the inhabitants of any and every school district in said coun-
ty, under and in virtue of the aforesaid act, and of this
act, shall be levied on all the assessable property in said
district agreeably to the assessments of the last preceding
county tax, excepting, nevertheless, the property assessed
to, and actually owned by, free negroes.

Tax Total by the
inhabitants of dis-

tricts to be levied

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of any
and every school district in said county, so as aforesaid
qualified, assembled at any legal district meeting, shall and
may have power to vote a tax on the assessable property in
said district, for payment of the salary of a teacher in said
district, or by contribution.

Inhabitants of dis-

tricts vote tax

to pay teachers