1838.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 192.
Reels.

cessary for the purchase of a reel, or reels, books of,
instruction, and for such other purposes as may be
strictly and actually required for the production of

Notice thereof.

merchantable raw silk, and shall give timely notice to
the commissioners as aforesaid, that said sums of money
may, at the laying of the next annual levy, after said

Levy directed.

notice has been given, be levied for, and when collect-
ed, be paid over to said trustees to be expended by.
them for said uses; provided however, that the said
sum does not exceed one hundred and twenty dollars.

Proceeds of the en-
terprise applied.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the silk which may
be produced in pursuance of this act, shall be sold as
said trustees may direct, and the proceeds thereof ap-
plied, after paying the annual expenses which may
necessarily be incurred in continuing in force the pro-
visions of this act, in defraying or assisting to defray,
the current expenses of said house.

Increase if profit-

able.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That if, after the fore-
going provisions have been carried into effect, the said
trustees shall deem the profits arising from the pro-
duction of raw silk as aforesaid, are such that it would
conduce to the interest and advantage of said house to
increase the amount of its production of this article,
they are hereby empowered and required, with the ap-
probation of the commissioners for Montgomery coun-

Funds therefor.

ty, to apply from time to time so much of the proceeds
arising from the sale of the raw silk produced as afore-
said, as they may think proper to accomplish said-pur-
pose.

If unproductive.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That if, after carrying into
effect this act according to its true intent and meaning,
said trustees shall find that the same does, and will,
if continued in force, operate injuriously on the gene-
ral interest of said house, then, and in that case, this
act may, with the consent of the said commissioners,

Discontinued.

become null and void, and the property and effects
which may have accrued by virtue of the same, shall

Dispose of the ma-

terials.

be disposed of for the benefit of said house in such
manner as said trustees may deem proper.