1170 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77.

stationery for the children of the State. If, however, in appor-
tioning the said State school tax among the different counties and
the city of Baltimore, the share of any county should prove
inadequate for the purposes aforesaid, then the county commis-
sioners of such county are hereby authorized, empowered,
directed and required to levy and collect such a tax upon the
assessable property of such county as the board of county school
commissioners shall designate as sufficient to make good the
deficiency; provided, said tax shall not exceed ten cents in the
hundred dollars, unless the county commissioners shall approve
and sanction an additional tax. The taxes so levied and collected
shall be paid quarterly, on the day fixed for the payment of the
State school tax to the several counties; but the proceeds from
special taxes may be paid oftener, upon the order of the board of
county school commissioners, to the treasurer of the said board of
county school commissioners, in order that the schools of said
counties may be kept open for the time herein set forth; and said
tax shall be levied and collected as other taxes. Any sums of
money which may have been specially collected or levied on any
election or school-house district, for educational purposes con-
nected with these districts, shall be collected for and applied to
the purposes so intended originally, and shall be used for no
other purpose; and if said funds have been used otherwise, they
shall be returned and applied as aforesaid.

1872, ch. 377.

83. In all cases where the county has not been properly
divided into school districts, and full records of the boundaries
thereof have not been made and recorded, the board of county
school commissioners shall appoint a committee, if in their opinion
they deem it necessary, consisting of three persons of intelligence
and sound judgment, who shall divide the county into suitable
school districts, define and describe the boundaries of each; pro-
vided, that no school district shall contain a greater area than four
miles square, unless a part of it be located in a thinly settled
region. In the formation of the school districts, the committee
shall take into consideration the most suitable site for the school
house, the general features of the country, and shall make each
school district of such size and form as will best accommodate