THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

1837.

names of the persons respectively, chargeable with the
payment of the same, and the said trustees shall there-
upon have and exercise in relation to the said lands,
all the powers which might or could be exercised by
the commissioners of the tax of any county in this
State, in like cases, in virtue of the act for the more
effectual collection of the county charges in the sever-
al counties of this State, passed at the November ses-
sion, seventeen hundred and ninety seven, chapter
ninety, and the collector of any school district shall
have the same powers and authority, and be subject to
the same rules, regulations and duties in the premises
as by law appertain to the office of collector of the
county charges in like cases.

CHAP. 176.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the aforesaid act
for the public instruction of youth in primary schools
throughout this State, and this act, shall be and the
same are hereby declared to be public and remedial
acts, and shall be construed by all courts of justice ac-
cording to the equity thereof, and no proceedings by
the inhabitants, or of the trustees of any school dis-
trict, shall be set aside or adjudged to be void for de-
fect or form, or for any irregularity therein, provided,
that the requisitions of said acts, shall have been sub-
stantially complied with.

Remedial act.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the trustees of each and every school district
in said county, to report to the orphans' court on or
before the fifteenth day of December in each and every
year, the amount of money received, the number of
children educated, the amount paid to their teachers,
and it shall be the duty of the trustees of primary
schools in each of their respective election districts as
aforesaid, annually to report to the Orphans' Court,
and said court to the Legislature.

Annual reports
required.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That the school funds
now belonging to, or which may hereafter be appor-
tioned to the said county, shall and may be use:I and
applied as at present, until the said county shall have
been laid off into school districts, and schools shall
have been established in at least three of said districts,
provided, always, that whenever and as soon as any
one or more of the election districts, shall have been
laid off into school districts, and organized agreeable

Temporary dis-
position.