THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

CHAPTER 178.

An act to better regulate the distribution of the School

Fund in Harford County.

CHAP. 178.

Passed March

3, 1847.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all school monies hereafter received by
the orphans court of Harford county from this State, or
from any other source, for school purposes, shall be ap-
portioned by said court among the several election dis-
tricts thereof, in the proportions as follows, to wit: to the
first election district, Abingdon, twelve per centum there-
of; to the second election district, Hall's Cross Roads,
seventeen per centum thereof; to the third election district,
Bel Air, twenty-two per centum thereof; to the fourth
election district, Marshals, twenty-one per centum there-
of; lo the fifth election district, Dublin, twenty per
centum thereof; to the sixth election district, Havre de
Grace, eight per centum thereof.

Apportioned

court.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the sixth election
district, Havre de Grace, shall hereafter be entitled to
three school commissioners, and the orphans court of
Harford county is hereby authorised and required to ap-
point the same, to serve until the next general election
for school commissioners in said county, and at the next
general election for school commissioners thereof, and
every third year thereafter, the voters of the sixth elec-
tion district, Havre de Grace, shall or may elect three
persons, residents of said district, according to the sixth
section of an act passed the sixth day of March, eighteen
hundred and forty-three, chapter two hundred and thirty,
entitled, an act relating to the school fund of Harford
county, to be school commissioners thereof, nnd if there
should be a failure at any time to elect school commis-
sioners in said district, or, if vacancies should occur from
ony cause, then the orphans court shall appoint suitable
persons to fill such vacancies.

Commission-

ers.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts, or parts of
acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are
hereby repealed.

Repealed.