WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

CHAPTER 76.

CHAP. 77.

A further additional supplement to the act, entitled an act
to provide for the public instruction of Youth in Prima-
ry Schools throughout this Slate, passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter one
hundred and sixty-two, so far as the same relates to Kent
County.

Passed Feb. 29,
1840.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, it
shall and may be lawful for the trustees of the several
school districts in Kent county, to adopt such regulations
as to the admission into the primary schools, of their re-
spective school districts, of children not residing within
their respective districts, as to them shall be deemed ne-
cessary for the interest of the children residing in and re-
ceiving tuition in said district schools, and to prevent the
introduction of a greater number of scholars, not residing
in said district, than can be properly attended to by the
teachers of said schools, or to the exclusion or prejudice

Trustees to a-
dopt rules, &c.

of the children resident in said school district; provided,
that nothing in this act shall be so construed to prevent
the admission of such children from the adjoining dis-
tricts, who shall reside neater to the school house of such
adjoining districts, than the school house of the district in
which such children may reside.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of the sixth
section of the supplemental act, passed at December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, chapter three hun-
dred and three, as may be repugnant to, or inconsistent
with the provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby
repealed.

CHAPTER 77.

Repealing
clause.

An act to abolish the Magistrates' Courts of Allegany
County, and to extend the jurisdiction of a single Justice
of the Peace in said county.

Passed Mar. 3,
1840.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the first day of May, eigh-
teen hundred and forty, the act, entitled an act to establish

Repealed. as re-
lates to Alle-
gany county.