1758

CALVERT COUNTY.

of eighteen hundred and twenty -five, chapter one hundred and
sixty-two, or within thirty days thereafter, and shall at any
time within thirty days thereafter, return a certificate thereof

Case of
failure.

to the county commissioners) and on failure to take oath or re-
turn a certificate thereof, within the time or limits herein before
limited, he or they shall be subject to the penalties prescribed by
the said act of eighteen hundred and twenty-five for similar
offences.

Funds
placed
under the
direction of
the orphans
court.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the school funds for Calvert
county arising under any and every act or resolution, and the
avails of all investments for the support or encouragement of
free or common schools in said county, shall be placed under
the direction and control of the orphans court in said county,
and the same as received by the said orphans court from the
treasurer of the western shore, shall be annually distributed

Appro-
priated.

and applied according to the provisions of the said act, of
eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter one hundred and
sixty-two.

Voters sub-
stituted for
taxable in-
habitants.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all the powers which are
vested in the taxable inhabitants of the several school districts
in said county, by the aforesaid act, shall be and the same are
hereby vested in the free white male citizens of the county,
above the age of twenty-one years, and actual residents of and
taxable in the said districts respectively, and the resident
inhabitants of any and every school distiict in said county, so
as aforesaid qualified, shall have and exercise all the powers
which are by the aforesaid act, vested in the taxable inhabitants
of said district, and in the manner and form as the same might
or could be exercised by the aforesaid taxable inhabitants.

Levy of tax

District
meeting
and tax.

Case of no
personal
property of
non- resi-
dents.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all the taxes to be voted by
the inhabitants of any and every school district in said county,
under and in virtue of the aforesaid act of eighteen hundred
and twenty-five, and of this act; shall be levied on the assessa-
ble property of the said district, agreeable to the assessment of
the last preceding county tax.
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the inhabitants of any and
every school district in said county, so as aforesaid qualified,
assembled at any legal district meeting, shall and may have
power to vote a tax on the assessable property in the said dis-
trict for the supply of any deficiency of funds to pay the salary
of a teacher in said district.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That where any land in any
school district in the said county, may become charged under
the provisions of the aforesaid act, of eighteen hundred and
twenty-five, or of this act, for payment of any school tux, and
the collector of such tax, can find no personal property in said
district liable for, or chargeable with the payment of the same,
the said collector shall be, and he is hereby directed and re-