1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 321

to admit into any of the said schools any negro or
mulatto child, or the child of any negro or mulatto
person of any degree, or any white child or person
who is not a bona fide resident of the said county.

Taxes to be
levied on bona
fide residents
only.

SEC. 31. And be it enacted, That the taxes provided
for and to be levied under the provisions of the seven-
teenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth sections of this
act, shall not be assessed to or levied upon any person
who is not a bona fide resident of the said county,
nor upon any negro or mulatto of any degree, nor
shall any master of apprentices be assessed for or re-
quired to pay said taxes upon any negro or mulatto
apprentice of any degree.

Master and ap-
prentice.

SEC. 32. And he it enacted, That every master of
apprentices, and every other person in said county, to
whom any white child, between the said ages of six
and twenty years shall be bound out to service, shall
be required to send each and every such white child
so bound to him or them to the district school of the
district in which such master shall reside, at least one
month in every year, or for such a length of time dur-
ing the said child's apprenticeship, as shall, in the ag-
gregate amount to the same as one month in every
year of such apprenticeship; and if any such master
shall refuse or neglect to comply with the requisitions
of this act in this behalf, it shall and may be lawful
for any such child or apprentice, upon his or her ar-
rival at full age, or for the next friend of any such
child or apprentice during his or her minority, to in-
stitute an action in the county court of said county,
giving this act in evidence against such master or his
representatives, to recover damages for the violation or
neglect of the provisions of this act, and the said
county court shall have and exercise jurisdiction of
each and every such case as shall come before it, and
shall render such judgment therein, as may be just
and proper according to law.

Illegal voting,
penalty.

SEC. 33. And be it enacted, That if any person not
a legal voter in the said county, shall vote, or offer to
vote at any of the elections provided for by this act,
he shall be liable to all the pains and penalties under
existing laws in this State, against illegal voting.

Commissioners
to levy.

SEC. 34. And be it enacted, That the commission-
ers of the said county, at the time of making their
annual levy in the month of August, eighteen hundred
and fifty-one, and annually thereafter, shall levy upon
the assessable property of the said county such a rate
of tax as shall be necessary to make up any deficiency
or difference that exist between the amount of money