1834.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 212.

hereafter arise, by Ihe death, resignation, refusal to act, or
removal from the district, of any member of any such board,
the remaining trustees of such board may and shall appoint
a suitable person or persons, as the case may be, to fill such
vacancy.

Twelve subscribed

scholars entitle

&c.

Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the number of
regularly subscribed scholars, required by the sixth section
of the act of December session, eighteen hundred and thir-
ty one, to entitle any located school to the benefit of the
provisions of that act, shall consist of twelve such scholars,
in lieu of fifteen as required by said section; and that if any

Districts failing &c

of the schools located under that act, have not brought, or
shall not bring themselves within the provisions of said act
or of this supplement, so as to be entitled to a distributive
share of the donation under said act, that then, until the
certificate of the trustees, as required by said act, as amen-
ded, by this section, shall have been made, the proportion
allotted by said act, to the district in which such school is,

Portion disposed,

situate, shall be divided, equally amongst the other located
schools in said district, which have entitled themselves un-
der said act, or this supplement; and that, if at any time
hereafter, any school which has become, or may hereafter
become, entitled to a distributive share of said donation by
the giving of such certificate, shall, for the space of one,
year, be without the number of subscribed scholars required
by this supplement, its right to any portion of said donation
shall cease, and its proportion shall be equally distributed
amongst the other located schools entitled to a share of the
donation, until such school shall have again entitled itself
to a share, of the donation under the provisions of said act,
and this supplement.

Disposition of sur-

plus June 1835

Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That at the next June,
session of the Orphans Court of Caroline county, if there
is now or shall then be any surplus of the proportion of'the
said donation allotted to any of the districts of said county,
remaining in the hands of said court, or of any of its judges,
it shall be the duty of the said court to divide such surplus
equally amongst the several located and entitled schools in
such district, and to pay over their respective proportions
immediately to the trustees of such schools, and that if at
any time thereafter, from the small number of schools in any
one district of said county, entitled to receive a portion of
the donation, the distribution of the whole amount of the
donation allowed to any one district, under said act of De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and thirty one, chapter