LAWS OF MARYLAND.

18-14.

CHAPTER 190.

CHAP. 190.

An act to authorise the Trustees of School District num-
ber two, in Election District number three, of Talbot
county, to levy a lax on the taxable property of said dis-
trict, for the payment of a balance due on the School
House therein mentioned.

Passed March
5, 1845.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
that the inhabitants of school district number two, election
district number three, of Talbot county, are about to be
deprived of the benefits of the primary school system in
said county, owing to a balance clue for the school house
in said district, from the fact of one of the original trustees
of said school, having used a portion of the money, levied
for the building of said school house, and having since
departed this life insolvent; AND WHEREAS, the said house
is about to be sold for the balance due thereon, and the
children of the inhabitants of said district will then be de-
prived of the inestimable benefit and advantages of educa-
tion—Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
the trustees of school district number two, in election
district number three, of Talbot county, commonly known
as the Trappe district, be and they are hereby authorised
and empowered to levy and assess upon the taxable inhabi-
tants of said district, the sum of three hundred dollars, it
being the balance due on a school house, purchased by
former trustees of said school district, the above sum to be
applied to the payment and liquidation of the said balance
due for said school house, in said district of Talbot county.

Trustees au-
thorised to le-
vy and assess.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the trustees of said
school district, be and they are hereby authorised, empow-
ered and required to appoint a collector for the collection
of said sum, by the first section of this act, ordered and
required to be levied and assessed.

Trustee autho-
rised to ap-
point a collec-
tor.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the collector to be
appointed by said trustees, be and he is hereby invested
with all power for the collection of said tax, now confer-
red upon the collector of county taxes in Talbot county, and
that the said trustees shall have full power to levy in addi-
tion to the tax specified in the first section, such further
sum, not exceeding ten per centum as they may deem a just
compensation for the services of the said collector.

Collector in-
vested with
power, &c.