JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

489

year than shall be annually levied for school pur-

poses, by the county commissioners of said county,

in addition to the amount annually received by the

said school commissioners from the Treasurer of the

State; and they shall not borrow any sum or sums

Not borrow.

of money in any one year in excess of their actual

receipts and incomes for such year as provided for

by law; and it shall not be lawful for said county

school commissioners to contract or pay any debt

in excess of the annual revenues provided by law

for school purposes; nor shall the county commis-

sioners for said county assume or pay any debt or

any portion thereof contracted in violation of the

provisions of this act.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all laws inconsistent

with the provisions of this act, be and the same are

Repealed.

hereby repealed.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1876.

CHAPTER 277.

AN ACT to repeal chapter seventy-seven (77) of the

laws passed in eighteen hundred and seventy-four,

relating to Oysters in Sinepuxent bay and its trib-

utaries and to re-enact the same with amendments,

and also to protect fish therein.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That chapter seventy-seven (77) of the

Repealed and

acts passed January session, eighteen hundred and

conditioned

seventy-four, (1874), for the protection"of Oysters in

Sinepuxent Bay and its tributaries, is hereby re-

pealed, but all violations of said act may be prose-

cuted and punished as fully as if said act had not

been repealed.