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HARFORD COUNTY.

	in the board of the commissioners of the school fund of said county.
Repeal.	SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That any law inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act for the distribution of a certain fund for the purpose of establishing Free Schools in the several Counties therein mentioned, so far as relates to Plarford County. — 1832, ch. 160.
Preamble.	WHEREAS, it appears to this general assembly, from the re- port of the orphans court of Harford county, that several of the commissioners of the school fund, have not complied with the directions of the supplement to the original act, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, chapter twenty-seven, which requires that the commissioners shall re- turn an account of their expenditures to the orphans court, in November every year ; and it also appears by said report that the said commissioners have had constantly, considerable sums of money in their hands unexpended, and without paying any interest therefor, and there being no provision in any law to authorize the court to call the said commissioners before them for settlement, or have any control over the surplus money in their hands ; therefore,
Authority to compel return of accounts.	SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That it shall be lawful for the orphans court of Harford county to compel the commissioners of the school fund that have not already settled up their accounts, to appear before them, and give an account of their expenditures, otherwise charge them with all the moneys that they have received, and not accounted for, and that in the month of November in every year, they, the said commissioners, shall make a return of all the moneys expended by them, to the said court. SEC. 2. Repealed by 1834, ch. 226.
Authority to receive donation.	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the orphans court shall be capable of receiving donations from any individual or indivi- duals that may gratuitously bestow them in support of the
Disposition thereof.	school fund, which donations they shall distribute in the same manner they do the donations from the state ; and all donations heretofore made by any individual or individuals, that are in the hands of any commissioner and not accounted for, the said court is hereby authorized and required to demand such dona-
Such as has been made.	tion or donations of such commissioner, or in case of his death, of his executors or administrators, and such donation when received shall be distributed as other moneys are. SEC. 4. Personal.