1832.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 73.

built, to be, and forever remain the property of the Trus-
tees and their successors, for said different sites or locations
for the purpose of schools, and no other.

Vacancies

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees, for
the time being, are hereby authorized and required, when
vacancies in any of the said locations shall happen in the
county, (from any cause,) the remaining Trustees, or a ma-
jority of them, forthwith fill said vacancy.

Investment of ba-

lance

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the balance of the sur-
plus remaining now in the hands of the Orphans' Court,
arising from actual annual income, after the appropriation
for houses belonging to the Upper District, be laid out by
the Orphans' Court, in the purchase of some profitable
stock, to stand and remain in the name of the Orphans'
Court, and their successors, for the sole use and benefit of
the children of said Upper School District; and that the in-
terest annually arising therefrom, be applied as directed by
the act to which this is a further additional supplement, and
the balance, (if any,) be consolidated every two years, as
directed by this section.

Other two districts

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners of
the Middle and Lower School Districts, of said county, be
authorized and required to appropriate any surplus fund
now in the hands of the Orphans' Court, of said county, to
their respective Districts, in the same manner and to the
same purposes that the Commissioners of the Upper School
District of said county are required by the first section of
this act, to appropriate the surplus funds of said District

CHAPTER 73.

Passed Feb. 19, 1833

A supplement to an act to provide for the distribution of that
part of the School Fund, which is appropriated to Balti-
more county, passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and twenty-eight, chapter one hundred and eighty-five.

WHEREAS, it often happens that persons appointed un-
der the original act, to which this is a supplement, as Trus-
tees for the distribution of the School Fund, in Baltimore
county, refuse or neglect to act as such, in which case no
provision is made by law for substituting other persons
competent and willing to act in their places — Therefore,

Case of non-ac-

ceptance of Trus-

tee

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioners