JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1834.

or any of them, in Caroline County Court, for all monies
paid under the order of said Commissioners, or any of
them, which action shall be tried at the first session of said

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Court, after the institution thereof, and in which the said
justices shall lecover, for the use of the district, from said
commissioners, or from any of them, under whose order the
same was paid, all moneys paid under their order, for which
accounts, properly verified as aforesaid, are not produced
by the commissioners giving said orders, and in such actions
against the delinquent commissioners, or any of them, the

Suit

Court shall give judgment for the amount found due, al-
though under the sum of fifty dollars, with costs of suit;
and if, upon the trial of any such action or actrons, it should
appear, from the accounts produced by such commissioner
or commissioners, that there is nothing due from them, the
the Court shall nevertheless render judgment against them
for costs of suit; and on any judgment obtained in the name
of the State under the provisions of this section, the justices

Judgment

of the Orphans' Court, for the time being, may sue out the
Same process of execution or attachment, which may be
had on the common law judgments in said court.

Attachment

Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That at the June
session of the Orphans' Court of Caroline county, in each
year, if shall appear to said Court, upon the reports ren-
dered to them by the several Boards of District Commis-
sioners, that there 5s any part of the money placed to the
credit of the commissioners of any district remaining unex-
pended after payment of all orders which may have been
given by the commissioners for such district, it shall be the
duty of the said Court, for the time being, at the request or
upon the written application of the commissioners for said

Case of balance
unexpended

district, to invest such unexpended balance in bank stock
or in some mode which they may deem safe and secure, in
their name, for the use and benefit of said district; and that if

no such request or application be made to said court, at its
said session, it shall then be the duty of said court to pass
over such balance to the credit of the commissioners for the
eusuing year, and to be subject to their order as a part of
the current free school fund of that district.

Otherwise

Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That whensoever a
board of trustees for any located school in Caroline county,
has been or may hereafter be organized in conformity to the
provisions of the fifth and sixth sections of the act of De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and thirty one, chapter
two hundred and forty four, and any vacancy has occurred,
and now exists, or any vacancy in any such board shall