1844.

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAT. 97.

CHAPTER 96.

Passed Feb.
19, 1845.

An act explanatory to an act passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty-four, relative to the School
Funds of Caroline County,

Repealed.

WHEREAS, some doubts having arisen in construing the
fourteenth section of the act of Assembly, passed at De-
cember session, eighteen hundred and thirty-four, chapter
two hundred and twelve, relative to the distribution of
the free, or charity school fund, for Caroline county, and
of the donation from the State to said county, for the pur-
poses of education— Therefore,

Orphans court
to pay funds
over to school
commissioners

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act, it
shall be the duty of the Orphan's court of Caroline county,
to pay over to the commissioners or trustees of the respec-
tive located schools, in the middle and lower election dis-
tricts of said county, at their December session, or as soon
thereafter as the said school funds shall come into their
hands, all sums of money that may be due the said located

Repealed.

schools.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all acts inconsistent
with this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 97.

Passed Feb.
17, 1845.

An act to make valid the acts of John W. Alder, as Con-
stable in Allegany County, for the years eighteen hundred
and forty-one, and eighteen hundred and forty-two.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
That the bond given by John W. Alder, as constable in
Allegany county, for the years eighteen hundred and forty-
one and eighteen hundred and forty-two, has been pro-
nounced defective by Allegany county court, and that se-
rious injury and injustice may result therefrom, to many in-
nocent persons—Therefore,

Acts made
valid.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the acts of John W. Alder, as constable in and for
Allegany county, are hereby confirmed and made as valid
and effectual in law, as if the constable's bond of the said
John W. Alder, for the years eighteen hundred and forty-
one and eighteen hundred and forty-two, had been duly ex-
ecuted and acknowledged according to the laws of this
state.