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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1839.

managers in virtue of this act, which orders shall be paid by
said commissioners in cash, or a check on the person or bank
having the said fund on deposite.

Keep ac-
count snd
register.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the managers of each dis-
trict shall keep a book in which they shall keep accurate ac-
counts of all their transactions, and a register of the several
schools in each district, the number, ages and sexes of the
children, designating the numbers which receive aid from the
school fund, the sums of money allowed, the number of days of
their attendance, and the names of their teachers, and the sums
contributed towards their compensation, and shall report a
statement thereof to the general assembly annually, before
the first Monday in February.

All school
money to
be paid over
to county
commis-
sioners.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted. That every person or persons
who may have been heretofore entrusted with any portion of
the school funds of said county, shall on or before the first
Monday in April next, pay over to the commissioners for
Montgomery county, all that may then remain in hand unex-
pended, and shall exhibit, at the same time, an account of all

Proviso.

that shall have been expended by such person or persons ; Pro-
vided, that nothing contained in this section, shall prevent such
person or persons, from paying at any time before, such sum or
sums as shall or may before that time have been earned by any
teacher or teachers for the teaching of any child or children, in
favour of whom an allowance may be made by the county com-
missioners ; And provided further, that so much of the funds to
be paid over as aforesaid as shall have heretofore belonged to, or
been intended to be applied for the benefit of any particular dis-
trict, or particular school or schools in any district, shall be con-
sidered as still belonging to, and to be used for the same parti-
cular district school or schools originally entitled to the same
or intended to be benefited thereby.

School
managers to
make all
necessary
regulations
for carrying
out this act.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the said school managers
may from time to time make such regulations for fully carry-
ing out the design of this act for the good management and well
regulating of schools in said county, and the just distribution
and application of said school funds, as the said managers may
find to be expedient and proper ; Provided, that such regula-
tions shall be not inconsistent with any of the foregoing sections
of this act.

Repeal.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That all acts heretofore passed
inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the same is
hereby repealed.

AN ACT Tor regulating the action of Justices of the Peace in certain cases
in Montgomery County. — 1839, ch. 255.

Duty of
justice

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of