594 FREDERICK COUNTY. [ART. 11.

next thereafter to be apportioned by them, and shall be appor-
tioned and paid with such moneys.

292. The said trustees shall semi-annually, on or before the
first days of April and October in each year, make and transmit
to the inspectors of primary schools, a report specifying the
length of time the schools in their several districts have been
kept, the amount of moneys received by them, and the manner
in which the same has been expended, and, as nearly as they can,
the number of children taught, and the number of white children
residing in each district, between the ages of five and eighteen
years.

293. If any trustee shall make a false certificate, under the
290th section of this article, or a false report under the section
last preceding, by means whereof any moneys shall be fraud-
ulently obtained from the inspectors of primary schools, or un-
justly apportioned by them, he shall forfeit and pay double the
amount so fraudulently obtained, to the inspectors of primary
schools, to be recovered by action of debt, in the name of said
inspectore, before any justice of the peace of the county, and
applied to the use of primary schools.

294. The said trustees shall, on the expiration of the term for
which they shall have been elected or appointed, or on their re-
fusal to serve, or removal out of the district, or any other inca-
pacity, within twenty days thereafter, pay over to their suc-
cessors all primary school funds in their hands; Provided, said
successors are within the twenty days elected or appoiated,and
if not elected or appointed within twenty days, after such elec-
tion or appointment.

295. Every trustee in possession of such funds, who shall re-
fuse to comply with the provisions of the last aforegoing section,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to present-
ment and indictment by the grand jury of the county, and upon
conviction shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than two
hundred dollars; the said fines to be paid over to their successors
in office, for the use of the school fund of the district.

2&6. The successors of such trustees shall have power to re-
cover said' funds, by suit before a justice of the peace, or in the
Circuit Court of said county, and all such suits in the Circuit
Court shall stand for trial and judgment at the first term, pro-