398 CAROLINE COUNTY. [ART. 6.

180. The Orphans' Court shall distribute the school funds
equally among the several school districts of the county, so that
each school district shall have an equal amount of said funds.

181*. The school districts in election districts number one and
two shall remain as now established, and the trustees thereof
hold and exercise the powers they have heretofore exercised,
unless altered or changed as herein provided; and the judges
of the Orphans' Court of said county are hereby authorized
and required to appoint five suitable persons in and for
the third election district of said county, as provided in section
182 of this article, who shall have all and singular the powers
for establishing a public school in said third district in the part
thereof known as Hunting Creek Neck as are now provided by
law for the schools in other districts in said county.

182. The judges of the Orphans' Court are authorized and
required to appoint five suitable persons in and for each election
district of said county as commissioners of the free school fund of
said county, for their respective districts, any three of whom
shall constitute a board competent to the transaction of all the
business and the exercise or performance of all the powers and
duties devolved upon said district commissioners; and in the
event of any vacancy occurring in any of the said boards of
district commissioners, by death, resignation or removal from
the district, or refusal to act, of any of said commissioners, or by
their removal from office as hereinafter authorized, it shall be the
duty of the Orphans' Court to appoint some suitable person to
fill such vacancy; and the Orphans' Court may remove any com-
misaioner for incompetency or misconduct.

183. In the distribution of said fund, it shall be the duty of
the several commissioners diligently to inquire for and ascertain
such orphans and poor children as are destitute of the means
of education, and to select, from time to time, and as far as
the funds under their control will enable them, such orphans
and poor children as they may deem proper objects for educa-
tion out of said fund; and it shall be their duty to give to those
whom they may select an order for their reception and tuition
at any school nearest or most convenient to such scholar, and
such selection may be made, and orders for the reception of'
charity scholars given, either by the board of commissioners for
the district, or any member thereof; and upon such order, ac-
companied with the accounts of any teacher, for the tuition