1806

CAROLINE COUNTY.

ensuing year, and to be subject to" their order as a part of the
current free school fund of that district.

Vacancy of
trustee.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That whensoever a
board of trustees for any located school in Caroline county,
has been or may hereafter be organized in conformity to the
provisions of the fifth and sixth sections of the act of December
session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter two hundred
and forty-four, and any vacancy has occurred, and now exists,
or any vacancy in any such board shall hereafter arise, by the
death, resignation, refusal to act, or removal from the district,
of any member of any such board, the remaining trustees of
such board may and shall appoint a suitable person or per-
sons, as the case may be, to fill such vacancy.

Twelve
subscribed
scholars,
entitle, &c.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That the number of re-
gularly subscribed scholars, required by the sixth section of
the act of December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one,
to entitle any located school to the benefit of the provisions of
that act, shall consist of twelve such scholars, in lieu of fifteen
as required by said section ; and that if any of the schools
located under that act, have not brought, or shall not bring

Districts
failing, &c.

themselves within the provisions of said act or of this supple-
ment, so as to be entitled to a distributive share of the donation
under said act, that then, until the certificate of the trustees, as
required by said act, as amended by this section, shall have been
made, the proportion allotted by said act, to the district in which

Portion
disposed.

such school is situate, shall be divided equally amongst the other
located schools in said district, which have entitled themselves
under said act, or this supplement ; and that, if at any time here-
after, any school which has become, or may hereafter become,
entitled to a distributive share of said donation by the giving of
such certificate, shall, for the space of one year, be without the
number of subscribed scholars required by this supplement, its
right to any portion of said donation shall cease, and its propor-
tion shall be equally distributed amongst the other located
schools entitled to a share of the donation, until such school
shall have again entitled itself to a share of the donation under
the provisions of said act and this supplement.

Disposition
of surplus,
June, 1835.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That at the next June
session of the orphans court of Caroline county, if there is now
or shall then be any surplus of the proportion of the said dona-
tion allotted to any of the districts of said county, remaining in
the hands of said court, or of any of its judges, it shall be the
duty of the said court to divide such surplus equally amongst
the several located and entitled schools in such district, and to
pay over their respective proportions immediately to the trus-
tees of such schools, and that if at any time thereafter, from the
small number of schools in any one district of said county,