SCHOOLS.

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the provisions of this act, and to draw on said bank in which
said money may be deposited for the same, as is herein after
provided.

And draft
thereon.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said school fund shall
be apportioned among the several election districts in said
county by the said commissioners, according to their respec-
tive populations, assuming as a basis on which to make such
apportionment, the number of votes cast in each district, at the
October election, eighteen hundred and thirty-six.

Distribution
to the
school
districts.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the trustees of each election
district, or some one of them, shall grant a certificate to each
and every child within such district as may come under the
provisions of this act, and whose parents, or those under whose
care they may be, shall make application to go to such school
as may be most convenient to the residence of such child, or to
such school as the parent or parents, or other persons, under
whose care they may be, shall select, whether the said school

Certificate
to poor
scholars.

shall be within the said election [*] or not.

(*district)

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That each teacher or person
under whose care said school may be, shall return the afore-
said certificate and an account, annually, to the trustees of the
election district in which said school is situated, specifying on
oath, or affirmation, the length of time such child has gone to
school, and said trustees, or a majority of them,* if they shall
be satisfied that said account is just and true, are hereby autho-
rized and directed to certify their approbation of said account,
and on said account being so certified and presented to the
commissioners for Somerset county, it shall be the duty of said

Which the
teacher
shall return.
Annual
account.

commissioners to draw an order on the Bank of Salisbury in
favour of such teacher for the amount of his account, or such
part thereof as said commissioners shall ascertain that he is
fairly and justly entitled to.

Draft for
payment.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful
for the trustees of each election district, or a majority of them,
to designate the number of schools which it is proper for them
to patronize, and they, or a majority of them, shall return a
true and perfect list of all such children towhom they may
have given certificates as aforesaid, to the commissioners of
Somerset county, specifying to what teacher each pupil was
sent, and at the same time they shall submit to the said com-
missioners a statement shewing the aggregate amount of money
to which such election district is entitled, and what portion
thereof each teacher will be entitled to receive as compensa-

Trustees
shall return
list of
scholars to
commis-
sioners.

tion for his services, and if at any time the whole amount of
the said election district's proportion of said school fund shall
not be expended, it shall remain and be for the use of said
district for the succeeding year, to he applied in like manner.

Case of
money not
being ex-
pended.