1817.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 303.

bond with security or securities to be approved by the
said commissioners conditioned for the faithful per-

His duties.

formance of his duties as treasurer; and said treasurer
shall receive, safely keep and by the order of the coun-
ty commissioners disburse all the monies that may come
into bis hands for the purposes of common school edu-
cation in Somerset county; and shall make an annual
statement in writing to the county commissioners, of
all the money or monies received and disbursed by him,
when said money was received, to whom and in what

Compensation.

amounts disbursed, and said treasurer shall be entitled,
by way of compensation, to deduct three per cent out
of all monies received by him. for his own use.

Treasurer W. S.
directed to pay
over.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer of the
Western Shore be, and he is hereby authorised and
required to pay over to the Treasurer of the Common
School Fund of Somerset county, or his order, all sum
or sums of money which are now, or may hereafter be
apportioned to Somerset county out of the common or
free school fund or funds of the State, or which may be
apportioned to said county out of the interest in the
State's portion of the surplus fund of the United States,
or which said county may he entitled to receive from
the State, for common school purposes from any fund
whatever.

Publication di-
rected.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the commissioners of
Somerset county be, and they are hereby required to
cause this act to be published in both the newspapers
printed in said county, for three successive weaks pre-

Payment there-
for.

vious to the first Monday in June next: and the said
county commissioners, to whom the bills for printing
the same shall be presented, shall levy the same upon
the county, as in other cases of county expenses.

1st of June.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall have
no force or operation until the first Monday of June
next.

Repealing
clause.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all laws of 1his
State inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be,
and the same are hereby repealed, so far as the same
relates to Somerset county.