1837.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 35.

CHAPTER 35.

Passed Jan. 31,
1838.

An additional supplement to an act, entitled, an act for
the distribution of a certain fund for the purpose of
establishing Free Schools in the several counties
therein mentioned.

Calvert county
court substitu-
ted for Com-
missioners of
School Fund.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the orphans' court of Calvert county
be, and they are hereby substituted in the place of the
commissioners of the school fund heretofore appointed,
and the said orphans' court is hereby vested with all
power and authority, which the said commissioners
were vested with by the act to which this is a supple-
ment.

Treasurer to
pay over.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Treasurer of
the Western Shore be. and he is hereby directed to
place to the credit of the orphans' court of said county,
or their order, the proportion of the school fund to
which said county is entitled, in the Farmers' Bank of
Maryland.

Commissioners
to pay over.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
of the school fund heretofore appointed by the act to
which this is a supplement, be, and they are hereby
directed and required to pay over to the orphans' court
of said county the balance, if any, of such school fund
as may have been drawn by them from the Treasurer
of the Western Shore, and not distributed in said coun-
ty, and the orphans' court of said county is hereby re-

Deposite.

quired to deposite the same in the Farmers' Bank of
Maryland, and to apply such sum or balance to the
education of indigent children.

Appointments
directed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the orphans' court aforesaid, at their first meeting
in every year, to appoint in each and every election
district of Calvert county, three discreet men, whose
duty it shall be to select in their respective neighbour-
hoods and districts such children as are in their judg-
ments entitled to the benefit of the fund, for establish-

Selection of
scholars.

Price limited.

ing free schools, viz: — white orphan children without
property, and other indigent white children whose pa-
rents are unable to pay for their tuition; provided, that
in no instance the amount for tuition shall exceed two
dollars and fifty cents per quarter; and provided also,