184G.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 258.

Passed March
9, 1847.

CHAPTER 268.

A supplement to an act for the promotion of education in
Somerset County, passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and forty-two, chapter one hundred and ninety-
nine.

Commission-
ers required
annually to call
on trustees.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the commissioners of Somerset county
be, and they are hereby authorised and required, on or
before the first Tuesday of May next, and annually there-
after, to call upon the trustees of the several school dis-
tricts in said county, to whom has been paid any portion
of the funds appropriated to common school purposes
in said county, to account for the money so received by
them, and if there has been received from the said com-
missioners, by any trustee or trustees for any school dis-
trict in said county, more money than is required by the
act to which this is a supplement, to school the poor
children in said school district, the said trustee or trus-
tees shall pay over to the said commissioners the sur-
plus so remaining in his or their hands; and the said
commissioners shall add the same to the yearly fund re-
ceived for common school purposes, and shall annually
divide the same amongst the several election districts in
said county, as directed by the law to which this is a
supplement.

May unite

districts.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the trustees, or a
majority of them, of any adjoining districts in Somerset
county, shall have full power and authority to unite said
districts into one, or to sub-divide them in more districts
than now exist according as the said trustees, or a ma-
jority of them, shall deem most convenient and advan-
tageous for the purposes of education in said districts,
and that the said trustees, or a majority of them, of the
districts so uniting or sub-dividing as aforesaid, shall re-
port their proceedings to the county commissioners of
Somerset county, and shall be entitled to receive the
united fund to which the said districts are separately en-
titled under the existing laws, and shall draw for, and
apply the samp, to the purposes of education in the said
districts so uniting or sub-dividing as aforesaid.

Trustees may
employ teach-
er by subscrip-
tion.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in any school district
in Somerset county, in which the trustees shall have raised,
by subscription, a sum of money, which, together with
the portion of the common scnool fund allotted to said
district, shall be sufficient to secure the services of a