JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1833.

compensation to the several district clerks which they may
deem just and right, not exceeding fifteen dollars to each
in any one year.

CHAP. 251.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the treasurer shall fur-
thermore pay over to the commissioners for Talbot county
for the use of primary schools in said county, whatever
amount may have been or hereafter may be apportioned or
assigned to said county, for the support of primary or free
schools therein.

Treasurer to pay
over

Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the commissioners for Talbot county, and they are hereby
required to cause this act to be published in each of the
papers published in the town of Easton, in Talbot county,
for at least four weeks previous to the next October elec-
tion, and the provisions thereof shall not be carried into
effect until after that time.

Publication and
stay

Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That the act entitled, an act
for the promotion of education in Talbot county, patsed at
December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, shall
be and remain in full force and effect, until the people of
Talbot county shall decide to carry this act into operation
by their assent, as is hereinafter provided, and until the
first day of July thereafter.

Existing law

Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the commissioners for Talbot county to pay to the trustees
of each school district, in Talbot county, or to their order,
their proportion of the primary school fund belonging to
their respective districts, by a check drawn by the presi-
dent of the board of commissioners, on the cashier of the
branch of the Farmers' Bank of Maryland at Easion, sta-
ting in said check the fund in bank from which it shall be
paid, and the purposes for which said check was drawn,
which check shall be countersigned by the clerk to the
commissioners.

Mode of payment
to school disliitls

Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That the commissioners for
Talbot county shall cause to be procured a good and suffi-
cient well bound book, in which they shall cause to be en-
tered an account of all moneys levied and collected from
the inhabitants of Talbot county, and all other months
which may come into their hands, for the support of pri-
mary schools, and shall cause their clerk to keep regular
and separate accounts for each school district.

Record to be kept

Sec. 14. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of,
the commissioners for Talbot county, to report in the

Annual report