WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That such sum as may be
necessary, of the money now due to and in the hands of
the commissioners of Saint Mary's county, received from
the school fund, be and the same is hereby set apart and
appropriated to the building of school houses in the se-
veral school districts in said county, according to the
fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement,
and to the claims due for the education of the poor up to
the time of the passage of this act, and the balance shall
be added to the sum hereafter receivable from the State
treasury, and subject to the same ratable distribution.

CHAP. 97.
Money to be
set apart.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of
primary schools, or a majority of them from each election
district, are hereby constituted a board with full power
and authority to alter the lines of any school district, or
to abolish any of the present school districts, or create
any additional school district or districts whenever the

Board of com-

missioners, &c.

wants of the people require it; and the commissioners of
Saint Mary's county are hereby required to call said board
together at least once a year, on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in August, in each and every year here-
after, or oftener if required.

Yearly meeting.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of
acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and
the same are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 97.

Repealing

clause.

An act to incorporate a company for the purpose of clean-
ing, widening and otherwise opening the Long Marsh
Ditch, which is the line between Queen Jinn and Caroline
Counties, from Keen's Cross Roads, to a certain tract of
land called and known by the name of Straiten, lying and
being in Queen Ann County, and a short distance below
the village of Bridgetown, in Caroline County, which
ditch was opened by virtue of an act of Assembly, pas-
sed December session, seventeen hundred and eighty-

nine.

Passed Mar 12,
1840.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General As-
sembly, that the act of seventeen hundred and eighty-
nine and the supplements thereto, are insufficient to carry
out the purposes therein intended — therefore,

Preamble.