THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

1835.

provisions of this act; Provided, that nothing in this

CHAP. 296.

act contained, shall be so construed as to prevent any

Proviso

school district that may at any time hereafter build or

otherwise procure a school house, and employ a teach-

er, from being entitled to their full proportion of the

dividends arising from said funds, from and after the

time such districts may comply with the provisions of

this act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the treasurer of the

Treasurer to depo-

Western Shore, be, and he is hereby authorised and

site

required to deposite in the Farmers' Bank of Mary-

land, to the credit of the aforesaid commissioners, the

dividends or profits arising on the school funds already

invested, also all the monies which may accrue and

become payable to said county, to be applied under the

provisions of the act to provide for the public instruc-

tion of youth in Primary Schools throughout this State,

passed at December session, eighteen hundred and

twenty-five, chapter one hundred and sixty-two, to the

support of Primary Schools in said county.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners

Annually to dis-

of Primary Schools, in said county, shall on the second

tribute moneys

Mondays of May and November, in each and every

year hereafter, apportion and distribute the moneys

which may be placed under their control, in the man-

ner and form as is provided by the aforesaid act, to

provide for the public instruction of youths in Primary

Schools, throughout this State.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all the powers which ;

Eligibility of voten

are vested in the taxable inhabitants of the school dis-

tricts, of Montgomery county, by the act to provide

for the public instruction of youth throughout this

State, shall be and the same are hereby vested in the

free white citizens of the age of twenty, one years, to

vote for or against the establishment of primary schools,

in any school district in which they may hold real or

personal property.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That all tax to be voted

rax

by the free white citizens of any and every school dis-

trict in said county, under and in virtue of the afore-

said act, and of this act, shall be levied on all the as-

sessable property in said district agreeably to the as-