ROBERT BOWIE,. -ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. NOVEMBER.

1804.

-to hold and occupy, for the use and benefit of the said school, any property, real or personal, not
exceeding the value of ten thousand dollars.

C H A P.
XX11I.

V. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said visitors of Worcester county school, or a majority of
them, shall have full power and authority to make and ordain such by-laws and ordinances, for the
government and regulation of the said school, as by them shall be deemed requisite, which rules and
regulations shall be observed by the masters, tutors and scholars, of the said school.

Visitors may-
make by -laws,
&c.

VI. AND, in order to perpetuate the succession of the said visitors, BE IT ENACTED, That as
often as any one or more of the said visitors of Worcester county school shall resign, die, or remove
out of the county, the remaining visitors, or a majority of them, at their next meeting, before they
proceed to other business, shall elect a suitable person residing in the county to fill such vacancy,
who shall, before he proceeds to act as visitor of the said school, qualify in manner aforesaid.

How vacancies
are to be filled,
&c.

VII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That all acts of assembly heretofore made, inconsistent with, or re-
pugnant to, the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed, abrogated and made void.

C H A P XXIV

Acts repealed.

A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act for erecting buildings for
the use of the poor of Queen-Anne's county, and for other pur-

Passed Janua-
ry 5, 1805.

poses.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the justices of levy court of Queen-
Anne's county be and they are hereby authorised and empowered to assess and levy, on the as-
sessable property in said county, at the time of laying the next county levy, a sum of money, not
exceeding two thousand dollars, together with six per cent, for collecting the same, for the purpose
of purchasing land, and erecting thereon buildings, for the use and accommodation of the poor in
said county.

Justices to levy
money, &c.

II. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the trustees of the poor for Queen-Anne's county, as commissi-
oners appointed in the original act which this is a supplement, or a majority of them, shall be and
they are hereby authorised and empowered, to demand and receive from the collector of said coun-
ty, all monies levied and assessed for their use in pursuance of this act, as soon as the same shall
become clue by law, and in case the collector shall refuse or neglect to pay the same, the said com-
missioners shall have the same remedy for recovering the same as is prescribed by the fifth section of
the said original act to which this is a supplement.

CHAP. XXV.

To be paid to
the trustees,
&c.

An ACT to continue an act entitled, An act relative to. the admi-
nistration of justice in this state, and to. repeal, the ads of assembly
therein mentioned.

Passed Janua-
ry 5, 1805.

BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That an act, entitled, An act relative to the
administration of justice in this state, and to repeal the acts of assembly therein mentioned,
passed at November session, eighteen hundred and one, except the nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-
first, twenty- fourth, twenty- fifth and twenty-sixth sections thereof, be and the same is hereby conti-
nued to the first day of October, eighteen hundred and ten, and until the end of the next session of
assembly which shall happen thereafter, and the salaries of the several chief justices shall hereafter
be paid in the manner directed by the eighteenth section of the act hereby continued.

CHAP. XXVI.

An act conti-
nued, &c.

A Supplement to an act, entitled, An ad to establish, and regulate a
market at Bridge-town, in Kent county, and for other purposes

therein mentioned.

Passed Janua-
ry 5, 1805.-

WHEREAS i.t is represented to this general assembly, by the petition of sundry inhabitants of
Bridge-town, in Kent county, and Sand-town, in Queen- Anne's county, that they experience
many inconveniencies from the want of sufficient powers being lodged in the commissioners of the
said towns to make and establish such regulations and ordinances as are or may be fitted to their parti-
ticular circumstances, wants and occasional exigencies ;

Preamble,