ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 158.

1812.

A. Supplement to an act entitled. An act to direct
the Register of Wills of Caroline county to
keep his office in Denton in said county., and
there to deposit the records., books and papers
belonging to said office.

Passed Jan. 4,
1812.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the register of
wills, of Caroline county, and he is hereby directed
and required, from and after the first Monday of
March next, to give daily attendance (Sundays ex-
cepted) himself or by a deputy, at his office in the
town of Denton in said county, for the transaction of
such business as appertains to his office; and if the
said register of wills shall refuse or neglect to com-
ply with the provisions of this act, he shall for such
neglect or refusal forfeit and pay a sum not exceed-
ing five dollars, for every day he shall so neglect or
refuse to comply with the said provisions, to be recov-
ered by indictment before the judges of the county
court of said county, to be collected as other fines are?
and applied to the use of said county; any thing in the
act to which this is a supplement, to the contrary not-,
withstanding.

CHAPTER 159.

Register of wills
shall attend dai-
ly at his office
at Denton, ei-
ther in person
or by deputy.
Penalty on ne-
glect or refusal.

An act f or the encouragement of Learning in
Cecil county.

Passed Jan. 4,
1812,

WHEREAS, application has been made to this
General Assembly by certain inhabitants of Cecil
county, that a law may pass establishing an academy
near Lower West-Nottingham Presbyterian meeting
house, in said county; And whereas, The establish-
ment of seminaries for the education of youth in this,
as well as other countries has been of essential benefit
to society, by bringing forward a succession of able
and virtuous characters qualified to discharge the va-
rious duties of public and private life; And whereas,
The general diffusion of scientific knowledge through
such means, is the more essentially necessary in a
country like ours, the perpetuity of whose happy go--
vernment materially depends upon the religion, virtue
and patriotism of the people at large, from whom ail
power in relation to the government eminates, and be-

Preamble,