2908

SOMERSET COUNTY.

lic instruction of youth in primary schools throughout this
state, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
twenty-five, chapter one hundred and sixty-two, be, and the
same are hereby extended to Somerset county, in the same
manner as if the voters of the said county had given a majority
of votes in favour of the establishment of the said school, as
provided for by the said act.

A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the distribution of
a certain fund for the purpose of establishing Free Schools in the several
Counties therein mentioned. — 1830, ch. 100.

Powers
vested in
the orphans
court of So-
merset.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That until the assignment and appropriation of funds for the
support and maintenance of public instruction, as provided by
the act of December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-
five, chapter one hundred and sixty-two, the justices of the
orphans court of Somerset county, be, and they are hereby
substituted and appointed in place of the commissioners of the
school fund heretofore appointed ; and the said orphans court
are hereby vested with all the powers and authorities which
the said commissioners were vested with by the act to which
this is a supplement, and that they have full power to appoint
trustees for the distribution of the school fund in the several
election districts of said county.

Treasurer
to pay them
proportion
of fund.

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, or may hereafter be entitled.

Commis-
sioners to
pay over
balance of
money.

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,
on or before the first Monday of May next, to pay over to the
orphans court of said county, the balance, if any, of such
school fund as may remain in their possession unexpended,
or not distributed.

Report to
legislature.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
orphans court of said county, to report annually, on or before
the first of January, to the general assembly, the manner in
which its proportion of the school fund may have been dis-
posed of.

Duty of
register of
wills.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the register of wills for
Somerset county shall perform all the duties necessary to
carry into effect this act, under the direction of the orphans
court, without fee or reward, and the said court shall cause to
be kept in a bound book, a correct account of their proceed-
ings, subject to the inspection of the citizens of the county.

Repeal.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That any thing in the said ori-
ginal act, or supplements thereunto, which is repugnant to, or