SCHOOLS.

1811

spection of all persons, upon paying the register his usual fees
for searches of records of the proceedings in the county court.
Modified as to the recording by the register, by 1838, ch. 410, sec. 3.

SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That the justices of the
orphans court of Caroline county, shall annually return to the
general assembly of this state, within three weeks after the
commencement of its session in each year, a full report show-
ing the amount received by them during the preceding year on
account of the free school fund or the donation from the state,
and the manner in which applied or disposed of, to which re-
port shall be annexed the several reports of the district com-
missioners of the said free school fund and of the trustees of
said located schools.

Annual
report to
general
assembly.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That the acts of Decem-
ber session, eighteen hundred and thirty -three, chapter forty-
one, and chapter one bundled and ninety-four, and all other
acts or parts of acts inconsistent heiewith, be, and the same are
heteby repealed.

AN ACT for the better regulation of the School Districts in the upper elec-
tion district of Caroline County, so far as relates to the School District
number three — 1836, ch. 169.

Repeal.

WHEREAS, it is lepresented to this general assembly, by the
petition of sundry citizens of the school distiict number three,
in the upper election district of Caroline county, that they
labour under great inconvenience from (he smallncss of their
said school district, which lenders them altogether unable to
conform to the law of eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and
the several supplements thereto, for the distribution of the
donation to colleges and academies, and the application of the
charity school fund in the several counties of this state ; for
remedy whereof,

Preamble.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Thomas Burchenal, Thomas Clendenning, George New-
lee, Abraham Jump and Parrot Roe, be, and they are hereby
appointed commissioners, who, or a majority of whom, are
hereby authorized and directed to proceed on or before the
tenth day of June next, to review the school district number
three, in the upper election district of Caroline county, and
make such alterations and enlargements of the same as they in
their judgment may deem expedient and necessary, without in-
fringing too much on the interests of the adjoining school dis-
tricts, so as to increase the number of scholars, and entitle it to
the provisions of the act of assembly, passed at December ses-
sion, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and the several supple-

Commis-
sioners to
review and
alter.

ments thereto, and make return of such alteration, if any, to
the register of wills for said county, whose duty it shall be to
record the same.

Make
return.