1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 106.

upon a sum of money necessary to be raised upon the
taxable property within the limits of said corporation,
for the purpose of providing fuel and for paying the
residue of compensation to the teacher or teachers,
which amount shall be levied upon the taxable property
of said town, and be collected in the usual way of col-
lecting taxes due said corporation, by the same officer or
officers appointed to collect other corporation taxes, and
to be by them paid over to the treasurer of said corpora-
tion, who shall keep a separate account of the same.

To appoint
teachers.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the said Mayor and
Councilmen, in their capacity as trustees of said school
or schools, or a majority of them, shall engage and em-
ploy a competent teacher or teachers for said school or
schools, at a salary to each not exceeding the sum of
five hundred dollars per annum, and shall pass bye-laws,
ordinances, or orders necessary to carry into effect the
provisions of this act, and for the future regulation of

Proviso.

the said school or schools; provided always, that said
trustees shall not have the power to charge as tuition
fees to parents or guardians, who are able to pay, a sum
exceeding one dollar per quarter, and shall have the
same powers in relation thereto, as are or may be con-
ferred upon the authorities of Baltimore city, in con-
nection with the primary school system in said city,

CHAPTER 106.

An act to make valid a certain Mortgage therein men-
tioned,

Passed Jan.
19, 1850.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, a deed of mortgage made and executed
by John Ryder, of the city of Philadelphia, of the first
part, and James J. Boswell and Munsen H. Treadwell,
of the city aforesaid, of the second part, hearing date on
the twelfth day of February, in the year eighteen hun-
dred and forty-nine,and recorded in liber G. McC, num-
ber sixteen, folio four hundred and eighty-three, one of
the land record books of Cecil county, in this State, is de-
fective by reason of the mortgagees in said mortgage, hav-
ing made the affidavit, required by the act of December
session, eighteen hundred and forty-six, chapter two hun-
dred and seventy-one, and the supplement thereto, passed
at December session, eighteen hundred and forty -seven,
chapter three hundred and five, before a commissioner
of this State, resident in the State of Pennsylvania, in-
stead of a judge of court of record, as required by the