498 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

keeping with the plan followed throughout the United States,
in which twenty-two States have already provided at least sev-
enty-three sub-stations for the purposes of meeting the respect-
ive soil and climatic conditions, and crop diversifications; and

WHEREAS, Such a combined Agricultural High School and Ex-
periment Farm will logically serve to stimulate the interest in
agriculture among our State High Schools thus enabling these
institutions to provide a greatly increased number of better pre-
pared students for agricultural courses in our State Agricul-
tural College; and

WHEREAS, In furtherance of the principles herein declared,
it is deemed advisable to extend to the people of the Eastern
Shore of Maryland the opportunities and facilities for better
education in the science of agriculture and horticulture by the
establishment of a sub-station of the Maryland Experiment Sta-
tion at Ridgely, Caroline County, and tuition in such courses of
study by adequate provision for scholarships for said purposes;
therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, .That the sum of Fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000) be
and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purchase of the
tract of land, containing fifty (50) acres, more or less, imme-
diately adjoining and originally a part of the tract of about
six (6) acres of land now occupied by the Agricultural High
School at Ridgely, Caroline County, Maryland, and at present
used for the practical demonstration of scientific principles of
agriculture and horticulture taught in said School, together
with all improvements on said land, including dwelling house,
tenant house, farm buildings as well as all farm equipment and
live stock, all of which said property is now owned by the
Board of County School Commissioners of Caroline County, a
body corporate; and the Comptroller of the Treasury be and
he is hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant
upon the Treasurer of Maryland for the said sum of Fourteen
thousand dollars ($14,000) payable to or upon the order of
the Board of County School Commissioners of Caroline Coun-
ty, a body corporate; provided, however, that the said Board
shall have executed and filed with the Treasurer of Maryland
a deed conveying to the State of Maryland an absolute fee
simple title to all of the property to be covered by this pur-
chase.