LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1848

CHAPTER 48.

CHAP. 48.

Supplement to the act entitled, an act to aid in the establish-
ment of a Female Seminary in Frederick city.

Passed Jan.
25, 1844.

Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly, by
the board of commissioners of the Frederick Female Semi-
nary, as also by numerous citizens of Frederick city and
county, that the object intended to be effected by the origi-
nal act, to which this is a supplement, will fail and the in-
tention of the legislature thereby be defeated, unless the
said board is allowed to raise a larger amount of funds than
is provided for in and by said act. And whereas, it is a
matter of deep and permanent interest, not only to Fred-
crick city and county, but to the State at large, that a semi-
nary, such as is contemplated by said act, should be estab-
lished and properly endowed; and this General Assembly
being satisfied that the said commissioners have thus far
faithfully discharged the duties imposed upon them by said
act, and are willing and desirous to complete said trust, so
confided to them, as soon as the necessary means shall be
provided. Therefore,

Preamble.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the grant made to the said board of com-
missioners and their successors by said original act, to
raise the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the purposes
therein mentioned, be and the same is hereby extended, so
as to enable said bond of commissioners and their succes-
sors to raise the sum of fifty thousand dollars, over and
above all expenses and charges, and for that purpose the
commissioners of lotteries for this State, are hereby autho-
rised and directed to raise the additional sum of thirty thou-
sand dollars in the same manner as they are now raising the
sum authorised in and by said original act.

Grant exten-
ded.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners
of lotteries, as they shall from time to time raise said sum,
shall pay the same over to said board of commissioners of
the Frederick Female Seminary, who shall apply not more
than ten thousand dollars thereof, in the same manner and
for the same purposes as are set forth, and provided for in
said original act, to which this is a supplement.

Commission-
ers to pay over

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said board of com-
missioners and their successors shall pay the remaining
twenty thousand dollars over to the trustees of the Fred-
erick Female Seminary, to be by them invested in some
secure way in the name and for the use and benefit of the
said Frederick Female Seminary, and which is hereby
declared as and by way of an endowment of said seminary,

To pay over

$20, 000.