1802

CAROLINE COUNTY.

borough school and Denton academy, which passed the legis-
lature of Maryland, at December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty, chapter one hundred and seventy ; in consequence
of which the orphans court have declined to draw the sum of
five hundred dollars, which is due the said county ; therefore,

Postpone
drawing
money till
October.

Be it enacted, that the said orphans court shall postpone the
drawing of the said fund, until the first Monday of October
next, and then they shall proceed to draw from the treasurer
of the western shore, the said sum of five hundred dollars, and

How dis-
posed of.

when so drawn, shall, and may proceed to distribute the same,
to the said schools which shall have been established in virtue
of this act, in the same ratio, and at the same time as the pre-
sent donation of eight hundred dollars is provided for being
distributed.

Repealing
clause.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That any thing, in any law of
this state, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, or re-
pugnant thereto, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the
distribution of a certain Fund, for the purpose of establishing Free
Schools in the several Counties therein named, and for other purposes,
1832, ch. 72.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by an act of the general assembly of Maryland,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-one,
chapter one hundred and thirty-nine, each election district for
Caroline county was constituted and appointed a separate
school district for said county, and that the orphans court for
said county was entrusted with the funds mentioned in said
act for the education of the poor white children in said county,
and was directed and required to appoint five commissioners
for each election district, and that the fund arising to said
county, under said law, should be equally divided, and an-
nually placed by said court, subject to the order of said district
commissioners, and that for the upper district, there remains a
sum unappropriated, and for which reason, in part, is the want
of suitable and convenient houses ; therefore,

Provisions
for erecting
school-
houses in
the upper
district.

SEC. 1, Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the commissioners for the upper school district of the said
county, be authorized and required to appropriate, out of the
surplus fund now in the hands of the orphans court, such sum
of money as, in their judgment and discretion, they shall think
proper, (not exceeding one hundred dollars,) to each site or
location as laid out and named by the commissioners appointed
by a law passed at the last session of assembly, chapter two
hundred and forty-four, for the purpose of erecting comfortable
and suitable houses for schools, and where the same is built, to
be, and for ever remain the property of the trustees and their