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LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1839.

Or send children to adjoining district school.	should be more conducive to the interest and welfare of their respective school district or districts, they are hereby autho- rized to contract with the trustees of any adjoining school dis- trict or districts, which have complied with the provisions of the aforesaid law, for the education of the children within
Proviso.	their respective school district or districts ; Provided however, that in no case shall the commissioners of Saint Mary's county be authorized to pay for such contracts more than said trustees, failing to build a school-house, &c. would be entitled to re- ceive on an equal distribution of the fund annually hereafter receivable from the state treasury, among the several school districts in the county.
Money set apart for building school- houses and paying claims.	SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That such sum as may be neces- sary, of the money now due to and in the hands of the com- missioners of Saint Mary's county, received from the school fund, be, and the same is hereby set apart and appropriated to the building of school-houses in the several school districts in said county, according to the fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement, and to the payment of claims due for the education of the poor up to the time of the passage of this act, and the balance shall be added to the sum hereafter receivable from the state treasury, and subject to the same rateable distrir bution.
Board of com mis- sioners Authorized toalter lines of school districts, or to abolish or create new ones.	SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That the commissioners of pri- mary schools, or a majority of them, from each election district, are hereby constituted a board with full power and authority to alter the lines of any school district, or to abolish any of the present school districts, or create any additional school district or districts, whenever the wants of the people require it, and the commissioners of Saint Mary's county are hereby required
To meet annually.	to call said board together, at least once a year, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in August in each and every year hereafter, or oftener if required.
Repeal.	SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. A further additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, passed December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, establishing Magistrates' Courts in the several Counties of this State, and prescribing iheir Jurisdiction, so far as relates to Saint Mary's County. — 1839, ch. 257.
Justices' per diem allowance abolished.	SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That so much of the act to which this is n supplement as re- lates to a per diem allowance to the justices of the magistrates' district courts, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to Saint Mary's county.
To receive fees and to	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said justices of the said district courts in Saint Mary's county, shall be entitled to