JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1834.

two hundred and forty four, would give to any one of the
located and entitled schools in such district, more than one

CHAP. 212.

hundred dollars, the orphans court shall pay to such school
only the sum of one hundred dollars as its proper propor-
tion, so that the annual proportion of any one located school
shall never exceed that sum; and that if after distributing
said donation amongst the located schools, according to the
provisions of said act and this supplement, there should re-

Amount limited to
$100

main a surplus of said donation, the same, with any surplus
which may accrue from year to year, shall be suffered to
accumulate in the hands of the orphans court of said coun-
ty, until the expiration of every third year, beginning with
the next June session of said court, and at the expiration
of said period, such accumulated surplus shall be equally
distributed amongst all the then located and entitled schools
in said county, first deducting for the use of the said School's
in the middle district, the sum of fifteen dollars of every
three hundred dollars of such surplus.

Further surplus

Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That when any such
house has been built at any located point, in conformity
to the provisions of the fifth section of the act of De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and thirty one, chapter
two hundred and forty foui, such school shall be entrtled
by the certificate of the trustees of the building of the school
house under that section, and without any certificate as to
the number of scholars, to their distributive proportion of
the donation for the first year after such certificate, which
they may apply to defray the expense of building said house,

House built, entit

tled &c

but they shall not, after receiving one dividend of the dona-
tion, be entitled to receive any more until they have compli-
ed with the provisions of the sixth section of said act, as
amended by this supplement, but that whenever any located
school shall have entitled itself to a continuing portion of the
donation, by the said last mentioned certificate, the trustees

Only one dividend

of said school shall not be bound to apply the portion they
receive for their school to the payment of the teacher, but
may, in their discretion, apply it or any part to the repair of
the school house, or to the purchase of necessary furniture
for it.

Its application

Sec. 14. And be it farther enacted, That the Justices of
the Orphans' Court of Caroline county, shall pay semi-an-
nually at their June and December sessions of said court to
the several located schopls of said county, who are entitled
to a portion of the State's donation, their respective propor-
tions of said donations then in the hands of said justices:
and if the said justices shall fail or refuse to pay the same

Payment of State

Donation