FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841,

CHAPTER 19.

CHAP. 19.

An act for altering the lines of School Districts numbers
ten and forty-eight, of Anne Arundel County, and for
removing the school house in District number ten.

Passed Jan.
19, 1842.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the lines of primary school district num-
ber ten, of Anne Arundel county, shall begin on the Patux-
ent river, where the lands of Thomas W. Beard and Joseph
Nicholson join said river, and running thence so as to include
the lands of Joseph Nicholson and of the late Benjamin
Ogle, Junior, until it reaches where the lands of Isaac G.
McGruder and Philip H. Hopkins join the land of the said
Ogle, and thence with a straight line to the point where the
lands of Philip H. Hopkins and Richard Hopkins join the
land of Gerard R. Hopkins, and running thence so as to in-
clude the land of Gerard R. Hopkins, the land of John Lin-
thicum, the land of Misses Tylers, and the lands of William
Cooksey, until it reaches the old line of school district num-
ber ten, thence with said line so as to include in school dis-
trict number forty-eight, the land of Rignal Woodward, on
which he now resides, and the land of John Hammond, de-
ceased, with the exception of that part which formerly be-
longed to the Miss Hoods, which land is to remain in school
district number ten, thence Tunning so as to include in dis-
trict number ten, the land of Philip H. Newbern, which is
now included in district number forty-eight, and so on with
the line of district number ten, until it reaches the place of
beginning.

Lines defined

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the present trustees of
primary school district number ten, or a majority of them,
be and the same are hereby empowered to select a site for
the school house, which in their judgment may be most cen-
tral, (and if that cannot be obtained, the nearest situation
thereto, ) and remove thereto, free of any tax upon the dis-
trict, the house which is now used as a school house in dis-
trict number ten.

Trustees to
select site.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing in this law shall
be construed to deprive these districts as now altered, of
any of the rights and benefits which are secured by laws in
existence relating to primary schools.

Rights reser-
ved