T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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so levied as aforesaid shall be collected by the collector
of the county, and paid over to the treasurer of the
school fund, to be equally apportioned by the commis-
sioners of the school fund among the several primary
school districts, where such schools are in operation, and
the Centreville school district.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the collector of said county to collect the said addi-
tional amount of assessment for the use of primary
schools, and pay the same over to the treasurer of the
school commissioners; and the said collector shall re-
ceive for making such collections the same per centage
as may be allowed by law for the collection of other
county charges, and the official bond of said collector
shall be responsible for all monies collected under the
provisions of this law.

Duty of col-
lector.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the act passed at
January session, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, chap-
ter three hundred forty-two, entitled, an act to authorise
the collection of a tax in each primary school district in
Queen Anne's county, for the payment of teachers,
be and the same is hereby repealed.

Repealed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect and go into operation from the day of its passage.

CHAPTER 89.

In force.

AN ACT with relation to the proof requisite in cases
of rape.

Passed
Mar. 1, 1854.

WHEREAS, upon trials for the crime of rape, offenders
frequently escape by reason of the difficulty of the
proof, which has been required, of the completion of
the said crime; for remedy thereof,

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall not be necessary, in such cases, to prove
the actual emission of seed, in order to constitute a car-
nal knowledge, but that the carnal knowledge shall be
deemed complete upon proof of penetration only.

Proof.