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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Acts repealed.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the act of the
General Assembly of Maryland passed at its session
in the year eighteen hundred and eleven, chapter one
hundred and sixty-two, entitled "a further additional
supplement to an act entitled an act for the relief of
the poor of Frederick county," the act passed by the
General Assembly of Maryland at its session in the
year eighteen hundred and seventeen, chapter one
hundred and three, entitled "an act to authorise the
Levy Court of Frederick county to increase the pay
of the overseer of the poor in said county," the third
and fourth sections of an act passed by the General
Assembly of Maryland at its session in the year eight-
een hundred and twenty-eight, chapter one hun-
dred and fifty-two, entitled" a supplement to an
act entitled an act to authorise the Levy Court
of Frederick county to levy a sum of money
to purchase a tract of land and build a house thereon
for the use of the paupers, and sell the present Poor
House of said county, and for other purposes," and
the act passed by the General Assembly of Maryland
at its session in the year eighteen hundred and forty-
three, chapter two hundred and forty-three, entitled
"an act to increase the bond of the keeper of the
Almshouse for Frederick county," be and the same
are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 97.

Passed Mar.
6, 1856.

AN ACT to establish and endow an Agricultural
College in the State of Maryland.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it hath been represented to the Legisla-
ture, that certain wise and virtuous citizens, are
desirous of instituting and establishing in some
convenient locality within this State, an Agricul-
tural College, and Model Farm, in which the
youthful student may especially be instructed, in
those arts and sciences indispensable, to success-
ful Agricultural pursuits, and whereas, it doth ap-
pear to this Legislature, that while the wise and
learned in the present age have cultivated with