1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 96.

ble property of said county the sum of two hundred and
twenty-two dollars and eighty-six cents, and refund or pay
over the said amount to the commissioners of Baltimore
county, any other law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Treasurer of B.
co. to draw &c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the treasurer of Bal-
timore county is hereby authorised and required, at any
time after January one, eighteen hundred and forty-one, to
draw on the commissioners of Carroll county for the afore-
said sum of two hundred and twenty-two dollars and
eighty-six cents, and apply the same to defray the ex-
penses of said county, as other levies are now applied.

CHAPTER 96.

Passed Mar. 11,
1840.

An act supplementary to an act, passed December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, chapter three hundred
and sixty-two, entitled an act to divide Saint Mary's
County into School Districts, and to erect School Houses
therein.

In case of fail-
ure to build

school house.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in the event of the trustees of any school
district or districts in Saint Mary's county, failing to build
a school house or houses, according to the provisions of
the act to which this is a supplement, then it shall
be the duty of said trustees, until such times as they
shall have complied with the provisions of the afore-
said act, to contract for the education of the poor
children in their respective school district or districts, with
any convenient private teacher, upon such terms as indi-

Authority to
contract with

adjoining dis-

trict.

gent children have heretofore been educated; or if in their
judgment, it should be more conducive to the interests and
welfare of their respective school district or districts, they
are hereby authorised to contract with the trustees of any
adjoining school district or districts which have complied
with the provisions of the aforesaid law, for the education
of the children within their respective school district or

Proviso.

districts; provided however, that in no case shall the com-
missioners of Saint Mary's county be authorised to pay
for such contracts more than said trustees failing to build
a school house would be entitled to receive on an equal
distribution of the fund annually hereafter receivable from
the State treasury among the several school districts in the
county.