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BALTIMORE COUNTY.

Case of
additional
school
districts.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if the election districts in
said county shall from time to time exceed the number recog-
nized in this act, and also the act to which it is a supplement ;
that the several provisions therein contained, are hereby in-
tended to apply to such additional district or districts in the
same manner and for every beneficial purpose as they now are
intended to apply to the several districts therein referred to.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, to provide for the distribution of that
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. — 1834, ch 337.

Directions
respecting
distnbu-
tion of
school fund.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted) by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall be the duty of the several trustees, appointed in
each election district of Baltimore county, except the first, to
distribute the school funds appropriated to the use thereof, to
meet in their respective districts, semi-annually, or oftener, at
some public place, after they shall have given two weeks
notice, by written advertisements, set up at six or more public
places, that they will meet at the place and time designated
therein, for the purpose of receiving applications for the benefit
of said fund ; and when the said trustees shall have met, in
pursuance of such notice, they shall select from the applicants,
the children deemed by them to be most likely to profit by,
and best entitled to the benefit of said fund, and it shall be the
further duty of said trustees to superintend the education of the
children who shall be so selected, and to pay the instructor or
instructors therefor, out of the funds appropriated for annual
distribution, as aforesaid.

Annual
report.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That it shall be the duty of the
said commissioners to insert, in their annual reports of the ex-
penses of said county, a full statement of the distribution and
expenditure of said fund, within the year embraced by such
reports.

Investment.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of Balti-
more county, may authorize the treasurer of said county to
demand and receive from the treasurer of the western shore of
Maryland, the portion of the school fund allotted to said county,

Of portion
under reso-
lution No.
47 of 1833,
&c.

under resolution number forty-seven, passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, with the incre-
ments of said portion, if there be any, and to invest the same,
from time to time, in such public security or ground rents, as
they shall first approve — and that the increase of said portion
shall be added to its principal, until the capital of said fund
shall be eight thousand dollars, and thereafter the said commis-
sioners shall divide the income of said fund amongst the