SCHOOLS.
A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, to provide for the distribution of lhat part of
the School Fund, which is appropriated to Baltimore County, passed
at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, chapter one
hundred and eighty-five. — 1832, ch. 73.
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1717
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WHEREAS, it often happens that persons appointed under
the original act, to which this is a supplement, as trustees for
the distribution of the school fund, in Baltimore county, refuse
or neglect to act as such, in which case no provision is made by
law for substituting other persons competent and willing to act
in their places ; therefore,
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Preamble.
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SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of Baltimore
county, whenever they shall appoint any trustee, for the dis-
tribution of the school fund, to give notice thereof to the person
so appointed, and if such person shall not, within thirty days
after service of such notice, give information to the said com-
missioners of his consent or refusal to act as such trustee, then
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Case of
non-accept-
ance of
trustee.
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the said commissioners shall proceed to appoint a pet son re-
siding in the same distiict, to fill the place of the person
refusing or neglecting to give information as aforesaid; and if
any person heretofoie appointed as such trustee, shall refuse
or neglect to act as such, the said commissioners are hereby
required to appoint another person in the same district, to fill
his place as trustee, in the same manner as if such person had
actually resigned.
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Others to
ho appoint-
ed.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any trustee for the distri-
bution of the school fund in Baltimore county, shall hereafter
neglect or refuse to exhibit to the commissioners of said county,
an annual account of the money distributed by him, as pio-
vided in the original act, to which this is a supplement, it shall
not be lawful for the said commissioners to pay over to such
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Trustee
neglecting
to account.
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trustee, any further sum for distribution, until such account is
exhibited, and finally settled, to the satisfaction of the said com-
missioners ; and if such trustee shall refuse or neglect to ac-
count as aforesaid within ten days after he shall be required so
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No further
payment to.
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to do, by the said commissioners, he shall be considered as
refusing to act, and the said commissioners shall proceed to
appoint another person in his place, as herein before provided.
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Considered
as declining
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the
county commissioners on or before the first day of July next,
to give notice to the persons appointed as trustees, by or under
the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, of their
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Notice to
he given of
appoint-
ment.
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appointment as such, and if any such trustee shall neglect or
refuse to give information to the said commissioners of his con-
sent or refusal to act, as herein before provided, then and in
that case the said commissioners shall proceed to appoint an-
other in his place, as provided by this act.
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Neglect to
notify ac-
ceptance.
Considered
as declining
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