102 WORCESTER COUNTY. [ART. 22.

and payments of the school tax authorized to be collected by
law in said county, and the appropriations made by said com-
missioners for educational purposes, and it shall be the duty of
the grand jury of Worcester county, once in each and every
year, at the May term of the Circuit Court for Worcester county,
to examine the books and accounts of the county commissioners
of said county in account with the board of primary education
and the public school fund; and also to examine and inspect the
books and accounts of the said board of primary education and
the trustees appointed by them, and make a stated account of
their receipts and expenditures for the current year in detail,
and report the same to the Circuit Court for said county, which,
report shall be recorded by the clerk of the said Circuit Court in
the proceedings of said court; and the county commissioners of
Worcester county are hereby required to have said report pub-
lished in some newspaper printed in said county, for at least
three successive weeks before the first Wednesday in November
in each and every year.

NEGROES AND SLAVES.

The Act of 1862, ch. 22, adds the following:

3. In all cases where a runaway slave or slaves from Worces-
ter county, whether held as a slave or slaves for life or for a
term of years, shall be apprehended in the limits of an adjoining
State, ten miles from his, her or their home, or place of resi-
dence, or where he, she or they may have been hired, without a
permission, in writing, from his, her, or their owner, overseer or
employer; the sum allowed to the captors, or those returning
the said slave or slaves, shall be one hundred dollars, or one-half
part of the market value in the State of Maryland of such slave
or slaves so taken and returned to his, her or their lawful owner,
his, her or their agent, trustee or guardian, at the choice or option
of said owner, agent, trustee or guardian of such slave or slaves.

END OF LOCAL LAWS.