108

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 108.

Passed
Mar. 8, 1854.

AN ACT, to amend an act passed at January session
eighteen hundred and fifty-two, chapter one hundred
and seventy-five, entitled an act to incorporate a
Literary Institution, at Hagerstown, in Washington
county, to be styled the Hagerstown Female Semina-
ry, so as to provide charges for instruction in the re-
gular or ordinary course of studies to be paid by those
holding scholarships and having pupils educated
therein.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by the fifth section of the act of the Gene-
ral Assembly of this State, passed at January session
eighteen hundred and fifty-two, chapter one hundred
and seventy-five, entitled an act to incorporate a
Literary Institution at Hagerstown, in Washington
county, to be styled the Hagerstown Female Semi-
nary, it is provided that every subscriber for a schol-
arship in said Seminary, shall have the right and
privilege of having educated in it one female pupil
for each scholarship, he or she may hold, at all
times and free of charge, in such studies as shall
not be declared extra branches; and whereas, a
large majority of the subscribers to scholarship in
said Institution have petitioned this Legislature for
an act to change said section, so that holders of schol-
arship, having pupils educated therein, in the regular
or ordinary course of studies, (being such branches
as shall not be declared extra branches,) shall be
required to pay for such instruction such tuition
fees as may be prescribed by the trustees from time
to time, not exceeding fourteen dollars per annum.

Rights & pri-
vileges.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That every subscriber to a scholarship
in said Seminary, shall have the right and privilege of
having educated in it one female pupil for each schol-
arship, he or she may hold at all times, and in the regu-
lar or ordinary course of studies to be pursued in said
Seminary by paying, in addition to the interest which
his scholarship may yield, to the Treasurer or other
proper officer of the institution, such tuition fees for the
same us the trustees may fix upon and determine from
time to time, not exceeding nine dollars per annum in
the preparatory department, and fourteen dollars per
annum in the collegiate department of said Seminary,