1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 147.

thousand dollars, to be applied to the payment of the
expenses which are now, or may hereafter be incurred
in the erection of the public buildings for said county.

Levy directed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
of the tax for Carroll county, shall annually levy on
the taxable property of Carroll county, two thousand
dollars, and apply the same semi-annually to the pay-
ment of the interest, and on the principal of the loan
authorised to be made by the first section of this act,
any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAPTER 146.

Passed Mar. 10,
1838.

An act to Divorce Theresa Kann, of the city of Balti-
more, from her husband Julius Kann.

Divorce.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Theresa Kann, of the city of Baltimore, be, and
she is hereby declared to bo divorced from her husband
Julius Kann, a vinculo matrimonii.

CHAPTER 147.

Passed Mar. 13,
1838.

An act to Incorporate the Orphan House and Episcopal
Free School, of All Saints Church, in Fredericktown.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, Eleanor Potts, Catharine W. Ross,
Ann Potts, Philissia Dill, Louisa Mantz, Elizabeth
Richardson, Maria Tyler, Ruth Baltzell, Mary B.
Tyler, Ruth D. Swearingen, Fanny McPherson, Harriet
McPherson, Maria Birely, and Susan B. Hanson, and
other ladies of All Saints Church, in Fredericktown,
associated by the name of the Orphan House and
Episcopal Free School Society of All Saints Church,
in Fredericktown, for the benevolent purpose of render-
ing charitable aid, as far as may be in their powers,
to destitute female orphans, and to establish a free
school for the education of females, and for the pur-
pose of carrying into effect their benevolent plans,
have prayed, that trustees may be incorporated, with
power to receive, bold and dispose of contributions,