THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

CHAPTER 292.

CHAP. 292.

A supplement to the act entitled, an act to provide for the
public instruction of Youth in Primary Schools through-
out this State, passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and twenty-Jive, chapter one hundred and sixty-
two, so Jar us the name relates to Queen Anne's County.

Passed Mar.
9, 1846.

WHEREAS, the people of Queen Anne's county here-
tofore adopted the primary school system of education, in
said county; and whereas, the said county has been di-
vided into school districts, but in several districts no pri-
mary schools have been established, and such districts are
consequently exempt from the payment of any tax, for
the cause of education; and whereas, under the present
system of taxation, to pay the teachers employed in said
primary schools, there exist great irregularity and ine-
quality in levying the same, which necessarily give rise
oftentimes to discontent — therefore, to obviate these
evils,

Preamble.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in place of the present mode of levying
and collecting taxes, for the support of primary schools,
in Queen Anne's county, the levy court of said county
shall be, and they are hereby authorised and required to levy, as they levy other county charges, at their, next
session, and annually thereafter, after the adoption by the
people of the provisions of this law, as hereinafter direct-
ed, upon the real and personal property of Queen Anne's
county, such sum of money, not to exceed the nett and
clear sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, for each and
every primary school district, and the Centreville school
district, in said county, to be ascertained and prescribed
by the commissioners of the school fund, for said county,
for the support of primary schools, except for the erec-
tion of school houses, repairing the same, &c., which
may be erected and repaired in the manner and by the
means heretofore provided by law; and the said sum, so
levied as aforesaid, shall be collected by the collector of
the county, and paid over to the treasurer of the school
fund, hereinafter directed to be appointed, to be equally
apportioned by the commissioners of the school fund,
among the several primary school districts, where such
schools are in operation, and the Centreville school dis-
trict.

Authorised

and required
to levy.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
of the school fund, for Queen Anne's county, shall at their
first annual meeting in each successive year, or as soon

Appoint a

treasurer.