WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

schools and said inspectors, shall perform the same
duties and be possessed of the same authority, and be in
all respects governed by the same laws, within How-
ard district, that the commissioners of primary schools
and inspectors in Anne Arundel county are now to per-
form, are possessed of or are governed by.

CHAP. 98.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all laws respecting,
primary schools which are now in force in Anne Arundel
county shall be applicable to, and in force in Howard dis-
trict, and it shall be the duty of the inspectors of primary
schools in and for said district upon their appointment, to
make such an arrangement as will place so much of the
fourth election district of Anne Arundel county, as is with-
in the limits of Howard district, into one or more of the
schools districts of said Howard district; and the said
commissioners of the district shall have full power and
authority to carry into effect within said district the laws
relating to primary schools, as they are now enforced in
Anne Arundel county.

All pri'y school
laws in force in
A. A. co. appli-
able to H. Dis.

4th elec. district
to be divided in-
to school dist's.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of
Howard district instead of levying the sum of four thou-
sand dollars as is provided for by the second section of
the act of eighteen hundred and thirty, shall have autho-
rity and it shall be their duty to levy the sum of eighteen
hundred dollars upon the assessable property of said dis-
trict, in the same manner and for the same purposes with-
in said Howard district, that the said sum of four thousand
was levied upon and used for Anne Arundel county, and
shall distribute the same in a similar mode.

Levy authoris-
ed to be made.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the monies which
may hereafter be payable out of the State treasury for the
support of primary or free schools in Anne Arundel coun-
ty, shall be paid to the commissioners of primary schools
in Anne Arundel county and to the commissioners of pri-
mary schools in Howard district, in the following propor-
tions, that is to say: three-fifths parts thereof to the com-
missioners of primary schools in Anne Arundel county,
and two-fifths part thereof to the commissioners of prima-
ry schools in Howard district.

Manner of pav-
ing school mo-

nies.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of
Howard district, be and they are hereby authorised and
empowered to levy annually on the assessable property of
said district, a sum of money sufficient to pay annually
unto each person residing in said district who hitherto re-
ceived from Anne Arundel county a pension by county
assessment, the same sum he or she may so have received

Levy in aid of
pensioners, &c.