WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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of said county, in the following manner, to wit: the mid-

dle district to receive three-eights of said fund; and the
upper and lower districts the balance of five-eights, to be
equally divided between them.

CHAP. 113.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the said orphans' court to divide the several sums distri-
buted as aforesaid, equally between the. school districts
in said election districts that may be in operation, or may
become in operation hereafter, according, to the time that
said school may be in operation, according to law.

To be divided
equally.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That Richard Jones, Mar-
celus E. Keene, James Pippin, Richard Norris, Thomas
Straughan, Samuel Culbreth and Hooper D. Hutson, be

power to meet and divide school district number one into
two school districts, to suit the interest and convenience
of the people, and to locate a new school district between
Choptank river and the Delaware line, in the upper elec-
tion district of said county.

Commissioners

to divide dis-

tricts.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That Tilghman Johnston,
William Melony, Ennals Hubbart, be and they are hereby
authorized to change the location of the school situated in
Anderson town, and fix the location of the same at or
near the Friends Centre Meeting House.

Location of dis-

trict to be chan-

ged.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the board of commissioners for each election district in
said county, after having complied with the sixth section
of the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-four, chapter
two hundred and twelve, to which this is a supplement,

for six months in any one year, the sum of fifty dollars
as a donation out of the surplus revenue school fund for
each election district of said county.

Donation to be

made, &c.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the acts of Assembly,
passed December session eighteen hundred and thirty-
eight, chapter four hundred and ten, the act passed at
December session eighteen hundred and thirty-seven,
chapter two hundred and eighty-nine, be and the same are

Acts repealed.

hereby repealed; and the act passed at December session
eighteen hundred and thirty-four, to which this is a sup-
plement, is hereby declared to be in full force and effect.

Exception.