JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1834

CHAPTER 263.

CHAP 263

An additional supplement to an act, entitled, an act to pro
vide for the Public Instruction of Youth in Primary
Schools throughout this State passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and twenty five chapter one hundred and
sixty four, so Jar as the same relates to Kent County

SECTION 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the trustees, or a majority of them, elected
or to be elected by the taxable white male inhabitants of
any or each school district, under existing laws, or this act,
shall have power to levy upon all the taxable property in
said districts, except the property of free persons of color,

a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars, annually,
for repairing school houses, sinking wells, supplying neces
sary books, stationary, and furniture, lor the respective
schools, for the employment of teachers, payment of clerks,
commissions to collectors, and other incidental or necessary
expenses, and that the revenues received from any source
may be applied to similar purposes

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bee 2 And be it enacted, That the white male taxable
inhabitants of any school distuct, or a majority of those in
attendance it any meeting called for the put pose, in the
mode prescribed by law, in assessing and levying a lax on
the leal and personal estate of their district, shall vote a
sum in gross, to be levied on their district, not exceeding
the said sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, and that the
trustees, or persons authorised by law, in ascertaining and

regulating the tax, shall pursue the following mode — they
shall ascertain the aggregate valuation of the real estate
within then district, and also the aggiegate valuation of the
personal estate shall deduct one third part of the aggre
gate valuation of the real estale, and adding the remaining
two thirds to the aggregate valuation of personaal estate,
shall assess and levy upon the amount thus produced, a cer
tain rate or sum in every hundred dollars, so as to produce
the said sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, or as nearly
as can be, and in ascertaining and assessing the amount of
each individual owner of property, the same process shall
be observed, where real and personal estate shall be owned
by the same individual, and where only personal estate is

owned, the tax shall be laid upon the assessed value of

such estate, according to the rate aforesaid
Sec 3 And be it enacted, That the lists required to be
furnished to the trudges by the commissioners of the tax,
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