THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

county, be, and they are hereby required to observe the
provisions of this act.

CHAP. 195.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every teacher of
a school in Cecil county, shall be paid for each and eve-
ry poor scholar, entitled to share the benefit of said
fund, who shall have received tuition in the school kept
by said teacher, provided, that no teacher shall be enti-
tled to be paid for any greater number of poor schol-
ars than now are or hereafter may be, by said Or-
phans' Court allowed to be taken by said teacher, and
and that he shall not charge for such tuition, more
than the rate that may be usual for similar instruction,
in that part of the county where his school shall have

Teachers shall
be paid lor
poor scholars.

been kept, and provided further, that such teacher
shall make oath that his account is just and true, and
shall produce to the said Orphans' Court a certificate
signed by two respectable persons, resident in the
neighbourhood of such school, that every scholar
charged for in said account, is entitled to participate
in the benefit of said poor school fund.

CHAPTER 195.

Oath required.

A supplement to an act, entitled, an act to regulate Gates
in Kent county, passed May session eighteen hundred
and thirty-six, chapter three hundred and fifty-seven.

Passed Mar. 31,
1838.

WHEREAS, by the third section of an act passed at
May session, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, chapter
three hundred and fifty-seven, a tax of two dollars
and fifty cents is imposed on each and every gate in
said county, being on the public roads of said county,
and the said tax being considered onerous and oppress-
ive: — Therefore,

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That so much of the third section of said act, as im-
poses a tax of two dollars and fifty cents on each and

Repeal.

every gate, is hereby repealed; and a tax of one dol-
lar, and no more, shall hereafter annually be paid for
each and every gate kept on the public roads of said
county, by the person keeping the same.

Tax $1.