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WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 222.
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1840.
CHAP. 223.
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An act supplemental to the act, entitled an act concerning
Crimes and Punishments, passed at November session
eighteen hundred and nine, chapter one hundred am
thirty-eight.
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Passed Mar. 9,
1841.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland
That all and every person or persons, their aiders, adviser
or abettors, who shall be duly convicted of the crime of at-
tempting to poison any person or persons whatsoever, shall
be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary
for a period of time not less than two, nor more than ten
years, to be treated as the act. directs to which this is a
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If convicted of
attempting to
poison.
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supplement; provided, that nothing contained in this act
shall be construed to interfere with the provisions of the
act passed at December session, eighteen hundred and eigh-
teen, chapter one hundred and ninety-seven, in relation to
Negro or mulatto slaves.
CHAPTER 223.
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Proviso.
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An act relating to the School Fund of Cecil County.
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Passed Mar. 9,
1841.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the orphans' court of Cecil county be,
and they are hereby authorised and required, to vest in
stocks of the State of Maryland, any and every portion of
the school fund which lias heretofore been, or may hereaf-
ter be allotted to said county and paid to said court under
any of the laws of this State relating to said fund, and
which has not been, or may not hereafter be expended for
the education of children as contemplated by the several
acts of Assembly on that subject; and that from time to
time, the said orphans' court shall in like manner invest any
interest or dividend arising from said stocks; provided, such
interest or dividend, or some part thereof, shall not be re-
quired for the education of poor children in said county as
aforesaid.
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Orphans' court,
to invest school
fund in State
stock.
Proviso.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in case of such invest-
ment, the said stock or scrip shall stand in the name of the
orphans' court of Cecil county, and be subject to be sold
or transferred at any time by the authority of said court,
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If investment
be made.
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