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MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

	soon as such fact shall be certified to the said commissioners of primary schools, in writing, by the trustees of said district, to
To draw on treasurer of western shore. Application	draw on the treasurer of the western shore, in favour of said trustees, for the full proportion of the dividends to which such district may be entitled, to be applied by the said trustees towards the payment of the salaries of the teachers in said district, and in case the inhabitants of any school district in
In case of neglect.	said county, shall neglect or refuse to build, or otherwise pro- cure a school-house in said district, and employ a teacher as aforesaid, for two years from the passage of this act, then, and in such case, the commissioners of primary schools of said county, are hereby required to divide the amount directed to be by them apportioned as aforesaid, among such districts as
Proviso.	shall have complied with the provisions of this act ; Provided, that nothing in this act contained, shall be so construed as to prevent any school district that may at any time hereafter build or otherwise procure a school-house, and employ a teacher, from being entitled to their full proportion of the dividends arising from said funds, from and after the time such districts may comply with the provisions of this act.
Treasurer to deposite.	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the treasurer of the western shore be, and he is hereby authorized and required to deposite in the Farmers' Bank of Maryland, to the credit of the afore- said commissioners, the dividends or profits arising on the school funds already invested, also all the moneys which may accrue and become payable to said county, to be applied under the provisions of the act to provide for the public instruction of youth in primary schools throughout this state, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter one hundred and sixty-two, to the support of primary schools in said county.
Annually to distribute money a.	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of pri- mary schools in said county, shall, on the second Mondays of May and November, in each and every year hereafter, appor- tion and distribute the moneys which may be placed under their control, in the manner and form as is provided by the aforesaid act, to provide for the public instruction of youths in primary schools, throughout this state.
Eligibility of voters.	SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all the powers which are vested in the taxable inhabitants of the school districts, of Montgomery county, by the act to provide for the public in- struction of youth throughout this state, shall be, and the same are hereby vested in the free white citizens of the age of twenty-one years, to vote for or against the establishment of primary schools, in any school district in which they may hold real or personal property.
Tax.	SEC. 5. And be if enacted, That all tax to be voted by the free white citizens of any and every school district in said