LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1813

Kent county, that the cause of public education would be
greatly promoted in the two school districts into which the
said town and its precincts are divided to authorise the
annual levy of a sum of money upon the assessable pro-
perty of the said two districts for the purpose of renting a
suitable building or buildings for the use of the said schools
instead of incurring at this time the heavy expense of erec-
ting such buildings. Therefore,

CHAP. 170.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Levy Court of Kent county, are authorised and
required at the time of making the annual levy, to levy upon
the assessable property lying and being in the districts
comprising the two primary school districts of Chester-
town, being school districts number seven and eight in the
second election district of Kent county, a sum of money
not exceeding one hundred dollars to be collected as other
county charges are, and when collected to be paid over to
the trustees of the said respective school districts or their
order.

Levy court to

levy.

CHAPTER 170.

An act to allow Joel Thomas, former collector of taxes, in
Queen Ann's county, further time to complete his collec-
tions.

Passed Feb.
27, 1844.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Joel Thomas former collector of taxes in
Queen Ann's county, be and he is hereby authorised to
collect any and all taxes or balances of taxes due to him,
and now remaining uncollected for the several years in
which he was collector of the taxes in the said county, in.
the same manner and with the same privileges and powers
he could or might have done within the time limited by law.

Time allowed.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Joel Thomas,
before he proceeds to collect under and by virtue of this
act, shall make out and deliver to the person or persons,
from whom any taxes or balances of taxes may be
demanded, an account of the taxes or balances due from
such person or persons, and if the amount claimed be dis-
puted by the party, shall annex an affidavit that the same

Make affidavit

is due and unpaid.
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the authority hereby
given shall continue until the first day of June, eighteen
hundred and forty-five and no longer.
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In force until
1845.