1892 - Sell Colored Children's School Lot
AN ACT to authorize and empower trustees herein named to convey a
Lot of ground, situated in New Market District, in Dorchester
County, to the Board of County School Commissioners of said county.
Whereas a certain Jeffrey Stanley, late of Dorchester County,
deceased, in his lifetime sold to Charles Hughes, Lewis Young and
John Wesley Sampson, as trustees, a certain lot of ground in East
New Market District, in said county, in trust for the maintenance of
a school thereon for the education of the colored children of the
said district, and whereas, the said Stanly departed this life
without having executed any deed of conveyance for said lot to the
said trustees, and after his death James Alfred Hughes, his
administrator, duly conveyed the said lot to the said trustee by
deed bearing date, on the 5th day of November A. D., 1874, and
recorded in Liber F. I. H., No. 10, of the land records of said
county aforesaid, folios 5 and 6, as by reference to the same will
fully, and at large appear, and whereas the said lot has. since been
abandoned, as a school house lot, and the Board of School
Commissioners of said county have purchased another lot in the said
district, much more eligibly located, and have erected a fine school
house thereon, and established a school therein, for the education
of the colored children of said district, and whereas in
consideration of this action on the part of said commissioners, the
said trustees are willing and desire to convey to said Board of
County School Commissioners, the lot sold and conveyed to the said
trustees as aforesaid.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the trustees herein above named the survivor, or survivors, of them
be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to convey by good
and sufficient deed to be executed and acknowledged according to
law, to the Board of County School Commissioners of Dorchester
County in fee simple, all that lot or parcel of ground which is
described in the deed aforesaid from the said James Alfred Hughes,
administrator of Jeffrey Stanley, deceased, to the said trustees,
together with the building and improvements thereon, and all the
rights and appurtenances thereunto belonging.
SECTION 2. And be enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved March 15th, 1892.