WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

CHAPTER 87.

CHAP. 87.

An additional supplement to an act, entitled an act to pro-
vide for the Public Instruction of Youth in Primary
Schools throughout this State, passed December session
eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, chapter two hundred
and six, so far as relates to Dorchester County.

Passed Mar. 4,
1840.

WHEREAS, in section six of the supplement to the act
to which this act is an additional supplement, it is enjoin-
ed that each school district in Dorchester county shall
provide a school house; and whereas, several of the school
districts in said county have failed to comply with the re-
quisitions of this said sixth section, and have in conse-
quences been denied the benefit of the money in the
hands of the treasurer of the school fund for said county,
and which money is now in the hands of the said trea-
surer for the benefit of the above named districts — there-
fore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
the commissioners of each school district in Dorchester
county who have not, for want of a school house or
houses in said district or districts, or from other causes,
drawn from the hands of the treasurer of the school fund
for said county, the amount due the said district or dis-
tricts, be and they arc hereby authorized to draw from the
hands of the said treasurer the several amounts due or to

School commis-
sioners to draw

money due each

school district.

become due to the said districts; and when the district or
districts are still in want of a school house or houses,
then, and in that case, the school commissioner for said
district or districts, be and they are hereby authorized and
directed to purchase for said district or districts, a lot or
lots of ground in the most convenient place or places, re-
ference always being had to the convenience of the majo-
rity of the pupils to be educated in said district or districts;

land at fair prices, then and in that case the said school
commissioners be and they are hereby authorised to con-

To purchase
a lot.

demn said land; provided always, they the commissioners
shall not be permitted to condemn more than half an acre
for each school; and where the commissioners do condemn
land for the benefit of said school or schools, then and in
that case, the commissioners be and they are hereby autho-
rised to cause a plat and certificate to be made out by the

Proviso.