JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1833.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the report of the county
clerk, as required in the twenty-second section of the act
to which this is a supplement, shall be made to the Trea-

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Report required of
County Clerk

surer of the Western Shore, on or before the last Monday in
December annually, under the penalty of one hundred dol-
lar,s for every neglect, to be recovered in the mode men-
tioned in the second section, and that it shall be the duty

Penalty for neg-
lect

of the said treasurer to report to the legislature by the
twentieth day of January in each year, an abstract or sy-
nopsis of all the reports he may have received from the
said clerk.

Report of Treasu-
rer

Sec. 6. And be if enacted, That the levy court of said
county be, authorised and required to levy on the assessa-
ble property in said county, a reasonable per diem fof the
commissioners and inspectors, and the surveyor, if one be
necessary, that may be employed for laying down and de-
signating the school districts, in their respective election
districts. Provided, that the sums so levied shall not exceed

Compensation for
laying off districts

in any one year the sum of three hundred dollars, and that,
no other allowance of compensation be made to the com-
missioners and inspectors for any other services, ufter the
first division or arrangement of the school districts shall
have been made, and that the fees to the clerk of the coun-
ty and clerk to commissioners of the county tax, be levied
and paid as for ordinary business.

Restriction of other
compensation

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be law-
ful for the resident taxable inhabitants in the school dis-
trict, to levy a tax as herein before mentioned, and as regu-
lated by the original act, to remunerate the clerks to be
appointed in the several school districts, provided the tax
for that purpose shall in no one district exceed the sum of
fifty dollars, and that any taxable property in the district
shall be liable to such tax.

Compensation to
Clerk

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That only so much of the
act to which this is a supplement be repealed, as may be
inconistent with the provisions of this act, and that this
act shall be in force only in Kent county.

Repeal, &c