1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAP. 266.

whenever application is made for the admission of any
child or children, in the school in his, her or their appro-
priate district, and the child or children are refused,
without the payment of the sum assessed, upon the ad-
mission of children generally, then the parent, or guardi-
an or friend of such child or children, and the trustees of
said primary school, shall have power and authority re-
spectively, to appoint each an arbitrator, and said arbi-
trators, in case of disagreement, a third shall determine
whether or not the parent or guardian of the said child
or children, is able to pay the sum assessed, to he paid
by him, her or them; and if the arbitrators shall deter-
mine, that the said party or parties are not able so to
pay, then the trustees shall admit the said child or
children, to the entire benefits of said primary school;
and upon their refusal so to do, and representation being
made to the county commissioners of the school district
so refusing to comply with the award of said arbitrators,
shall be debarred all benefit in the State's donation, until
the grievance is remedied.

Repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of
acts, inconsistent with this act, be and the same are
hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 266.

Passed Feb.
21, 1846.

A supplement to the act, entitled, an act to prevent the
destruction of Wild Fowl in the head waters of the
Chesapeake Bay, in the, several counties therein men-
tioned, passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty-seven, chapter ten, and also a supplement to
the act entitled, an act to preserve the Ducks in Sassa-
fras, Elk, and Bohemia Rivers, passed at December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and forty-three, chapter three
hundred and two.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to the General Assembly,
by the petition of a number of the citizens of this State,
that it is almost impossible to kill any ducks in the Elk
river with ordinary ducking guns; and whereas, the said
petitioners have prayed the passage of a law authorising
all persons, who will obtain a license from the clerk of
Cecil county court, to kill ducks in the Elk river, by
such means and with such guns as are prohibited by the
above recited acts— therefore,