THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

ty, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
forty-five, chapter one hundred and thirty-eight be, and
the same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 166.

CHAP, 167.

An act to repeal the act of eighteen hundred and forty-
five, chapter ninety-four.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the act passed December session, eighteen hundred
and forty-five, chapter ninety-four be, and the same is
hereby repealed; provided, that this act shall not be con-
strued so as to repeal that portion of said act of Decem-
ber session, eighteen hundred and forty-five, chapter
ninety-four, which prohibits negro camp-meetings and
other out-door protracted negro meetings, and declares
them unlawful and tumultuous.

CHAPTER 167.

Passed Feb.
27, 1847.

Repealed.

Proviso.

A supplement to the act entitled, an act to provide for the
instruction of youth throughout this State.

Passed Feb.
26, 1817.

WHEREAS, sundry petitions and memorials have been
presented to the General Assembly of Maryland, praying
the division of school districts in Talbot county, owing
to the inconvenience in some cases of the present location
of primary school houses growing out of the increased
population and change of circumstances in said districts ;
and whereas, it is supposed that the commissioners of
Talbot county can better decide upon the propriety and
necessity of such divisions and alterations by the exami-
nation of witnesses and personal inspection of said dis-
tricts if necessary; and whereas, doubts exist as to the
authority of said commissioners under existing laws to
divide said school districts — Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the commissioners of Talbot county be,
and they are hereby authorised and empowered and re-
quired, upon petition in writing, of a majority of the
taxable inhabitants of any school district in Talbot coun-

Upon petition
in writing, to
appoint three
judicious com-
missioners.