1653

CECIL COUNTY.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the distribution of a certain
Fund for the purpose of establishing Free Schools in the several Coun-
ties therein mentioned. — 1821, ch. 44.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by an act, entitled, an act to incorporate a com-
pany to make a turnpike road leading to Cumberland, and for
the extension of the charters of the several banks in the city
of Baltimore, and for other purposes, and its supplements, a
fund has been pledged for the establishment of free schools
throughout the state ; And whereas, the said act and its several
supplements, have directed that the said fund shall be equally
divided among the several counties of this state,

Orphans
court sub-
stituted.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the orphans court of Cecil county, be, and they are
hereby substituted and appointed, in place of the commis-
sioners of the school fund heretofore appointed, and the said
orphans court are hereby vested with all the powers and au-
thorities which the said commissioners were vested with by
the act to which this is a supplement.

Treasurer
to pay over.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That the treasurer of the western
shore, be, and he is hereby directed to pay to the order of the
orphans court of said county, the proportion of the school fund
to which said county is entitled.

Commis-
sioners to
pay over.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of the
school fund heretofore appointed by the act to which this is a
supplement, be, and they are hereby directed and required to
pay over to the orphans court of said county, the balance, if
any, of such school fund, as may have been drawn by them
from the treasury of the western shore, and not distributed
in the several election districts of said county ; and the or-
phans court of said county is hereby required to apply such
sum or balance, when received from them, to the several elec-
tion districts, as proportioned heretofore by said commissioners.

Annual
report.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
orphans court of said county, to report annually to the general
assembly, the manner in which its proportion of the school
fund may have been disposed of.

Eepugnanl
act re-
paled.

SEC. 5, And be it enacted, That any thing in the said origi-
nal act or the supplements thereto, which is repugnant to or
inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall be, and the
same is hereby repealed.