THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said Sarah A. Wilcoxen be, and she is hereby
authorised and empowered to manumit the said Hanson
Coates, subject to the existing laws of the State in re-
ference to the emancipation of slaves.

CHAPTER 273.

CHAP. 274.

May manumit.

An act to allow Jesse I. Dalrymple, administrator of
James A. D. Dalrymple, further time to collect the fees
due to the laid James A. D. Dalrymple, late Register
of Wills of Calvert County.

Passed Mar.
5, 1846.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Jesse I. Dalrymple, administrator of James A. D.
Dalrymple, be and he is hereby authorised to collect all
fees, or balances of fees, due to the said James A. D. Dal-
rymple, as Register of Wills for Calvert county, until the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-seven.

CHAPTER 274.

Time allowed.

A supplement to an act entitled, an act for the distribu-
tion of a certain fund, for the purpose of establishing
Free Schools in the several counties of the State, so far
as the same relates to Calvert County.

Passed Feb.
27, 1846.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the commissioners of free schools, ap-
pointed under the provisions of the act of December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, chapter thirty-
five, shall require the teachers of free schools to keep
a diary of the attendance of all children assigned by them,
as children entitled to the free school fund, and return
the same in their accounts, under their oaths, that they
have taught the said children the number of days therein
mentioned.

Teachers to
keep diary.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That fifty days of tuition
and attendance at school, shall be considered one quar-
ter of a year.

Fifty days.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the orphans' court
of Calvert county, shall cause a copy to be furnished, by

Orphans court
to cause copy.