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JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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not taxed for the support of schools, and none in said dis-
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CHAP. 111.
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trict, or whose parents have property thus situated, shall
be subject to a charge for tuition, if in the opinion of the
trustees, such. children or their parents, are able to pay
such charge; Provided also, that no scholars are to be fur-
nished at the expense of the district, with books or sta-
tionary, except such as the trustees think unable to furnish
themselves: And also Provided, that the trustees shall
have power to expel any scholar from said school, for con-
tinued and extraordinary misbehaviour.
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Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the trustees to make a report to the commissioners of the
school fund of Queen Anne's county, before the tenth day
December every year, in which report shall be stated the
sums received from different sources, the amount expend-
ed, the number of children taught in said school, and as
far as can be ascertained, the whole number of white chil-
dren in said district between the ages of six and sixteen
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Trustees to account
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years.
Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That the provisions of this
act, shall be extended to any primary school district of said
county, whenever a majority of the taxable male inhabitants
of such district shall determine upon adopting the same;
and in that case, the trustees of such district shall have
power to levy a sufficient sum for building or repairing a
school house as occasion may require; and when the divi-
sion line between the two primary school districts, runs
through any tract of land, the whole of said tract shall be
taxed tor the use of the district in which the principal
dwelling house on said tract is situated.
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Other districts pro-
vided lor
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CHAPTER 111.
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An act to encourage the more effectual apprehending of
Runaway Servants and Slaves.
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Passed Feb. 20,1834
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WHEREAS, by the fifth section of an act, passed at No-
vember session, eighteen hundred and six, chapter eighty
one, relating to runaway servants and slaves; it is provided
that any person or persons seizing and taking up such
runaways, shall have and receive six dollars, AND WHERE-
AS, from experience, it is ascertained the sum is insufficient
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Preamble
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