1810

CAROLINE COUNTY.

shall fail or refuse to pay the same at said period after demand is
made in writing by the majority of the board of trustees of any
such school for its proportion, the said trustees may in the

Recovery.

name of the state, sue for and recover the same for the use of
their school by action of debt, before a single justice of the
peace, whatever may be the amount due, instituted jointly
against said justice of the orphans court in their individual
capacity, in which action the same proceedings may be had as
in action for the i ecovery of debts under fifty dollars, before a
single justice of the peace.

School in
middle
district

SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That instead of the lo-
cated school in the middle district of said county, heretofore
located by the commissioners under the act of eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-one, chapter two hundred and forty-four, at a
place called Driver's cross-roads, there shall be and is hereby
established and located a school for said county at a place com-
monly called the south end of Carter's or White's lane, in said
county, which school hereby located, shall be and is hereby
declared to be entitled to all the rights and privileges of a
located school, and may entitle itself to a distributive proposi-

(* propor-
tion)

tion* of said donation under said act of eighteen hundred and
thirty-one, and this supplement, as if it were a school located
under said act ; and the said located school at Driver's cross-
roads, shall, from the passage of this act, cease to be a located
school under said act of eighteen hundred and thirty-one.

Certificates
of invest-
ments.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the orphans court of said county, to deposite with the
register of wills for said county, all the certificates of stock or
other evidences of investments made, or of funds on hand,
relating either to the free or charity school funds, or the said
donation from the state, which it shall be the duty of said
register to preserve amongst the papers of his office, and to

Book of
accounts.

record in a well bound record book to be kept for that pur-
pose, and that it shall also be the duty of said register to record
in said book a full and fair account of all the proceedings of the
orphans court in relation either to said fund or said donation,
showing particularly the amount from time to time received
by said court, for and on account of said fund or said donation,
and the manner in which it has been disposed of or appro-
priated, and in which book the said register shall also record
all the returns made by the commissioners appointed to locate
schools, under the act of December session, eighteen hundred

Report, &c

and thirty-one, chapter two hundred and forty-four ; and also
all the reports and returns of the commissioners of the free or
charity school fund of said county to the orphans court, and all

Public
roads.

the reports and certificates of the trustees of the located schools
in said county, and that said record book shall be one of the
public records of said county, which shall be open to the in-